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
- Company
- Background Agents (Cole Murray)
- Category
- Engineering factories
- Source
- Open source
- Repository
- github.com/ColeMurray/background-agents · 3.4K stars
- License
- MIT
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Commercial offering
- None found
- Topics
- Listed
- October 2026
- Last verified
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