kunchenguid/firstmate
Talk to one agent. Ship with a crew.
About the project
firstmate is an "agent distro": a portable set of instructions, skills, and scripts that turns a general-purpose coding agent into a "first mate" that spawns and supervises a crew of autonomous agents in separate git worktrees and tmux sessions.
Useful for
- Run several tasks on one repo in parallel without collisions using separate worktrees
- Have the first mate agent conduct a code investigation and produce a standalone report
- Automate delivery of changes as finished PRs or approved local merges
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 126 stars today. The usual pace is 63 per day, so that's 2× as much.
- GitHub Trending this week: #23, +763 stars.
- Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #81.
- About 53 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @JonDevOps (278 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 5,727
- Stars in a day
- 127
- Forks
- 1,778
- Issues and pull requests
- 4,400
- Watchers
- 26
- Language
- Shell
- License
- MIT
- Created
- June 12, 2026
- Last push
- September 13, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending this week: #23, +763 stars; Top new repositories in the last 4 months: #81
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