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Artificial intelligence agents that develop autonomous software

Developed by ColeMurray, background-agents is an open source background-agents coding system based on TypeScript. It allows developers to create artificial intelligence agents (AI agents) that execute autonomous processes within applications.

Updates

  • October 7, 2026: Stars 2,329 → 3,335.

What you get

  • Running autonomous tasks in the background
  • Access to full development environments
  • Integrated work via Slack and GitHub

Installation

Installing dependencies
# .openinspect/setup.sh (provisioning)
#!/bin/bash
npm install
pip install -r requirements.txt

Running it

Starting the work environment
# .openinspect/start.sh (runtime startup)
#!/bin/bash
docker compose up -d postgres redis

If you don't write code

Paste this into your AI agent (Claude Code · Codex · Antigravity)

You are a daemon. I want you to perform the tasks I set autonomously using Node.js, Python and git tools. While working, create commits appropriate to the project I am developing, start parallel subtasks when necessary, and make your actions trackable on GitHub.

Repository: https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents. Follow the official instructions in the README of this repository for setup and execution.

Before starting, check which OS we are on and if the necessary tools (e.g., Python, Node.js, Git, Docker) are installed. Install any missing ones step-by-step according to this system.

Create a new, empty folder to work in. Do not touch any files outside this folder and do not delete anything. Tell me what you are going to do in one sentence before running each command.

Tell me what I should see on the screen at the end of each step. If an error occurs, I will paste the error message to you exactly as it is, and we will fix it together.

Related dictionary terms

Artificial Intelligence
Who it is forIt is suitable for software teams that want to automate autonomous coding processes in a reliable environment within the corporate network.
LicenseMIT

Links

TreScout did not build this tool · we found it in GitHub trends and wrote it up. This page describes the repository as of 2026-07-13: The star count and our text belong to that day, the repository may have changed since. Check the repository link for the current state. The introductory text was prepared with AI from the repository's own documentation, and this page was machine-translated from the Turkish original · the Turkish version prevails.