Babysitter
Enforce obedience to agentic workforces. Manage extremely complex workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration.
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Table of Contents
- What is Babysitter?
- Prerequisites
- Installation
- Plugins
- First Steps
- Quick Start
- Harness CLI Wrappers
- How It Works
- Why Babysitter?
- Compression
- Documentation
- Contributing
- Community and Support
- License
What is Babysitter?
Babysitter enforces obedience to agentic workforces, enabling them to manage extremely complex tasks and workflows through deterministic, hallucination-free self-orchestration. Define your workflow in code - Babysitter enforces every step, ensures quality gates pass before progression, requires human approval at breakpoints, and records every decision in an immutable journal. Your agents do exactly what the process permits, nothing more.
Prerequisites
- Node.js: Version 20.0.0+ (22.x LTS recommended)
- Claude Code: Latest version (docs)
- Git: For cloning (optional)
Installation
Babysitter supports multiple AI coding harnesses. Install the plugin for your harness of choice:
Claude Code (recommended)
Native marketplace install:
claude plugin marketplace add a5c-ai/babysitter
claude plugin install --scope user babysitter@a5c.ai
Restart Claude Code, then type /skills to verify "babysit" appears.
Codex CLI (Beta)
After cloning this repo, From within the Codex CLI:
codex
> /plugins
Navigate to the "babysitter" entry and select "Install".
Cursor IDE and CLI (Experimental)
Via the Cursor marketplace or npm:
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-cursor
Gemini CLI (Experimental)
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-gemini
babysitter-gemini install --global
GitHub Copilot (Experimental)
Via the GitHub Copilot CLI marketplace, or:
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-github
Pi (Experimental)
Native Pi plugin install:
pi install npm:@a5c-ai/babysitter-pi
Oh-My-Pi (Experimental)
Native omp plugin install:
omp plugin install @a5c-ai/babysitter-omp
OpenCode (Experimental)
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-opencode
The postinstall script copies the plugin to .opencode/plugins/babysitter/ automatically.
Internal Harness (No AI Coding Agent Required)
Babysitter ships with a built-in internal harness that runs processes programmatically without any external AI coding agent. This is useful for CI/CD pipelines, scripts, automated testing, and headless orchestration:
npm install -g @a5c-ai/babysitter-sdk
# Run a process definition using the internal harness
babysitter harness:call --harness internal --process .a5c/processes/my-process.js#process --workspace .
# Or run a free-form prompt
babysitter harness:call --harness internal --prompt "run lint and tests" --workspace .
The internal harness uses the SDK's built-in Pi execution engine directly. It supports all capabilities (Programmatic, SessionBinding, StopHook, HeadlessPrompt) and requires no external CLI.