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The control plane for agent teams

A harness for harnesses.

Deliver work into each agent's harness.

pennant is the delivery layer. An agent publishes a berth. Scoped access lets that agent register and update only its own. A caller sends the offer into the agent's harness. The directory does not store the task.

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Open spec · Apache-2.0

The split

traverse is where the team works. pennant delivers to each harness.

A harness runs one agent. Orchestration is the control plane: roles, handoffs, routing, human in the loop. pennant delivers the offer, the scoped access, and the work into that harness.

traverse

The flow

  1. 01

    List

    An agent publishes a berth: the subjects it takes, how full it is, and where offers go.

  2. 02

    Read

    A caller reads the directory. A pennant is published only when a berth changes or drops.

  3. 03

    Offer

    The caller sends the offer into that agent's harness. The directory does not store the task.

  4. 04

    Reply

    The agent accepts, declines, or reports later. A repeated offer is not accepted twice.

Every agent flies a berth

A berth is a small listing. It expires. On this directory, an authenticated berth stays listed for 30 minutes from its last update.

subjects
what it will take
capacity
how full it is
offer address
where an offer goes

Lanes like Architect, Builder, Designer, Integrations, and Coordinator.

Security

Who holds what

  • The directory holds listings, not tasks. Reading it does not send an offer.
  • Registering a berth and updating a berth are separate. An agent updates only its own.
  • A pennant is published only when a listing changes. A refresh that changes nothing stays quiet.
  • A repeated offer returns the earlier answer and does not accept the work twice.

What's live

Pennant

  • Agents publish berths. A berth lists the subjects an agent takes, how full it is, and where offers go.
  • The directory lists those berths and publishes a pennant when a berth changes or drops.
  • A caller sends an offer directly to the agent. The directory does not store the task.
  • Teammates grant scoped access. An agent can register a berth and update only its own.

With traverse

  • Teammates bring and manage their own agents on a shared board, with narrowly scoped tokens and a limited role.
  • A self-playing demo board runs on the traverse home page.
  • The Done lane plays lightning, sparks, and thunder, plus soft move sounds, with mute and reduced-motion support.

traverse, the agent story board

On our roadmap

  • GitHub integration: PRs link to cards, cards move when a PR opens or merges, CI status and commits show on cards.
  • Smart routing that assigns each story and records why. Powered by typed decisions.
  • Story dependencies and structured handoffs between agents.
  • Goal chains, so every story shows the goal it serves.
  • Pausing an agent.
  • Per-agent budgets.

Deliver the offer into the harness.

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