reCode

Orchestrated multi-agent development for Claude Code. reCode ships as a Claude Code plugin that turns a lead agent into a small engineering team: an orchestrator scopes a task into non-overlapping sub-tasks, hands each to a worktree-isolated implementer, gates the result against your project's real build/lint/typecheck/test/coverage commands, and routes it through adversarial reviewers (one per lens — correctness, tests, security, …) before it becomes a PR. Run it conversationally for one-off work, or arm the autonomous PR loop so it drives your GitHub issue backlog hands-off: poll for work → build → gate → review → open a bot-authored PR → wait for your approval → merge → repeat.

Status: v0 — a starting point to iterate on. The underlying Claude Code features (plugins, subagents, worktree isolation) are evolving; treat your first runs as calibration.

What you get

• The orchestrator pattern. orchestrator (Opus) → implementer × N (Sonnet, each in its own git worktree + branch) → reviewer × N (one per lens, adversarial) → test-runner. See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the full topology and the reasoning behind it.
• Gates as code. .claude/gates.json is a versioned, per-project adapter (module map + real shell commands for build/lint/typecheck/test/coverage) that every agent must satisfy before it can call anything "done" — enforced by a Stop hook, not by asking the model nicely.
• Worktree isolation. Every implementer works in its own git worktree, so parallel workers physically cannot clash on the same files.
• The autonomous PR loop. A cron-less systemd --user daemon (or a session-scoped cron fallback) polls your repo, advances one planned + module:*-labelled issue at a time through the full scope → implement → gate → review → PR pipeline, and merges once you approve — see docs/USAGE.md → "Autonomous loop & the issue queue".
• The cockpit. A read-only dashboard — static snapshot or a live, auto-refreshing local server — showing open issues by module, PR review/CI state, and active worker worktrees in real time. See below.

Quickstart (5 minutes)

This is the actual supported path per docs/GETTING_STARTED.md — reCode is added to an existing project as a plugin, not created by cloning/templating a new repo.

1. Install the orchestrator plugin into your project. Either declare the marketplace straight from GitHub (no local clone needed) in your project's .claude/settings.json:

{
  "extraKnownMarketplaces": {
    "recode": { "source": { "source": "github", "repo": "robercano/reCode" } }
  },
  "enabledPlugins": { "orchestrator@recode": true }
}

...or clone it locally and add it as a filesystem marketplace:

git clone https://github.com/robercano/reCode.git ../reCode

then, inside your own project, in Claude Code:

/plugin marketplace add ../reCode/.claude
/plugin install orchestrator@recode

2. Onboard: run /orchestrator:setup. With the plugin enabled, run it in Claude Code. It interviews you (project basics, module boundaries, gate commands, review/merge config) and scaffolds the files a plugin can't carry into your repo — .claude/gates.json, CLAUDE.md, the fan-out workflow, the CI gate workflow — plus a bot-account check and an offer to arm the loop.

3. Arm the loop (optional but recommended). Outside Claude Code, in a real terminal:

bash .claude/scripts/arm-loop.sh

This installs the systemd --user daemon that polls your repo and drives approved issues through the pipeline unattended. See docs/USAGE.md → "Cron-less loop (daemon)" for the mechanics, and docs/HARDENING.md before running it with bypassPermissions.

Full walkthrough, prerequisites, and a new-project configuration checklist: docs/GETTING_STARTED.md.

The cockpit

.claude/scripts/cockpit.sh renders a static local HTML snapshot of your repo's orchestration state: open issues by module with their blocking graph, PR review/CI status, per-role model routing, and active worker worktrees. For a live, auto-refreshing view with a worker inspector drawer (click a live worker row to see its timeline, breadcrumbs, worktree diff/forensics, and recent tool activity), run the serve mode:

pnpm cockpit            # http://127.0.0.1:8090
pnpm cockpit -- 9000     # custom port

It's a tiny Node HTTP server (no dependencies, node built-ins only, bound to 127.0.0.1) wrapping the same renderer used by the static snapshot. See docs/ARCHITECTURE.md and docs/COCKPIT_EVALUATION.md for the design rationale.

(Demo pending: a short capture of the cockpit serve mode showing live worker rows updating in real time, and the inspector drawer opening to show one worker's timeline/worktree/tool activity.)

What's in here

.claude/
  agents/         orchestrator · implementer (worktree) · reviewer · test-runner   ← shipped with the plugin
  commands/       /orchestrator:harden · /orchestrator:pr-loop · /orchestrator:test-pr
  skills/         setup, sync — onboarding + plugin-update reconciliation
  scripts/        gate.sh, cockpit.sh / cockpit-serve.sh, the loop daemon + its helpers
  self/           this repo's OWN self-hosted adapter (dogfooding — see docs/USAGE.md → "Self-hosting")
  gates.json      ★ PROJECT ADAPTER placeholder — module map, gate commands, model routing ← you fill this
CLAUDE.md         ★ project context placeholder                                            ← you fill this
CONTRIBUTING.md   how contributions to reCode itself work
LICENSE           MIT
.github/          CI gate workflow template
docs/
  GETTING_STARTED.md   setup, step by step
  ARCHITECTURE.md      the mental model & the three levers
  USAGE.md             how to drive the orchestrator day to day, incl. the autonomous loop
  PROMPTS.md           copy-paste prompts to populate files & kick off work
  TOKEN_BUDGET.md       cost control & measurement
  HARDENING.md         running the loop hands-off safely (bypass + sandbox)
  COCKPIT_EVALUATION.md design notes on the cockpit vs. third-party GUIs

★ = the only two files you must fill in per project once the plugin is installed.

Installing / publishing

The supported install path is the Claude Code plugin marketplace, either via GitHub source (extraKnownMarketplaces, no clone) or a local clone added as a filesystem marketplace — both shown in Quickstart above, with the full rationale for having two marketplace.json files in .claude-plugin/README.md.

npm: not published — name is squatted-dead (decision pending). reCode is not currently published to npm. The obvious package name is already registered by an unrelated, apparently abandoned/dead package, so an npm release isn't a plain npm publish — the open options are (a) publish under a scope (e.g. @robercano/recode) or (b) file an npm name dispute against the squatted name. Neither has been decided yet; this note exists so a contributor who wants to pick this up knows where the decision stands. If you want to drive it, open an issue (backlog label — see CONTRIBUTING.md) proposing one option with the tradeoffs, and the repo owner will label it planned if approved.

Docs

GETTING_STARTED.md · ARCHITECTURE.md · USAGE.md · PROMPTS.md · TOKEN_BUDGET.md · HARDENING.md · COCKPIT_EVALUATION.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md — how issues move from backlog to planned, what the PR pipeline enforces, and what's off-limits for external contributors.

The one thing to remember

The orchestrator-worker pattern is powerful but costs ~15× the tokens of a single chat (per Anthropic's own research system). Scale effort to task complexity, route cheap models to cheap work, and measure spend. See docs/TOKEN_BUDGET.md.

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Roberto Cano.