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# Background Agents

[Engineering factories](/software-factories/category/engineering-factories.md) Open source

[Visit website ](https://backgroundagents.dev/)[View on GitHub](https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents)

Open-source, self-hosted background coding agents triggered by GitHub, Linear, Slack, webhooks or cron.

## Overview

Background Agents (Open-Inspect) is an open-source project for running background coding agents on your own infrastructure. Agents are triggered from GitHub, Linear, Slack, webhooks or cron schedules and turn tickets into pull requests with attribution.

It is self-hosted and single-tenant, released under the MIT license, with no hosted version or pricing.

## Features

* Triggers agents from GitHub, Linear, Slack, webhooks or cron.
* Turns tickets into attributed pull requests.
* Runs self-hosted and single-tenant.

## Details

* Website

  [backgroundagents.dev](https://backgroundagents.dev/)

* Company

  Background Agents (Cole Murray)

* Category

  [Engineering factories](/software-factories/category/engineering-factories.md)

* Source

  Open source

* Repository

  * [github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents](https://github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents) · 3.4K stars

* License

  MIT

* Deployment

  Self-hosted

* Commercial offering

  None found

* Topics

  * [Background agents](/software-factories/?tag=background-agents)
  * [Issue to pull request](/software-factories/?tag=issue-to-pr)

* Listed

  October 2026

* Last verified

  October 2026

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