CodeConductor

Stop prompting. Start orchestrating.

CodeConductor is an open-source framework for building structured, reproducible AI-assisted software engineering workflows.

It helps developers and teams coordinate specialized agents for planning, implementation, testing, documentation, and review — using versioned agent contracts, task cards, and risk-based routing.

Important

Current Scope

What works today:

• npx cc-codeconductor init — detects project stack, writes .codeconductor/config.yml, copies council.yml and policy.yml into .codeconductor/presets/
• npx cc-codeconductor install council --target <opencode|claude|codex|agy|all> — generates and writes preset files; supports --global to install to ~/.opencode/, ~/.claude/, ~/.codex/, ~/.agents/
• npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target <opencode|claude|codex|gemini|cursor|agy|all> — installs LSP servers and configures AI coding tools; auto-detects project languages or use --lang to override
• npx cc-codeconductor detect — detects project stack and recommends presets
• npx cc-codeconductor doctor — validates configuration and installed runner directories
• npx cc-codeconductor update — re-applies the council preset for the configured target
• npx cc-codeconductor seo audit --url <url> — runs a comprehensive SEO audit on a single page (meta tags, schema.org, GEO readiness) and generates a markdown report
• npx cc-codeconductor seo audit --sitemap <url> — batch audits all URLs from a sitemap.xml with rate limiting and SSRF prevention
• npx cc-codeconductor seo llms --sitemap <url> — generates a llms.txt file for AI-search readiness from sitemap content
• npx cc-codeconductor help (alias: cc-help) — shows preset inventory (skills, subagents, commands) for the active or specified target
• npx cc-codeconductor debt-harvest (alias: harvest) — scans source files for // defer comments and writes .codeconductor/debt-ledger.md
• npx cc-codeconductor goal "<objective>" (alias: cc-goal) — decomposes an objective into a dependency-ordered task graph, writes .codeconductor/current-goal.yml
• /cc-pagespeed --url <url> — audits web performance using the PageSpeed Insights API; applies the 80/20 principle to produce a prioritized report of Core Web Vitals (LCP, TBT, CLS, FCP, TTFB) with framework-specific fixes; requires PAGESPEED_API_KEY env var for full CrUX field data (optional but recommended)
• npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target <opencode|claude|codex|agy|all> — installs the full preset (agents, prompts, skills, commands, settings) for the chosen runner; use --locale=es to inject Spanish-aware instructions into agent files, or rely on the locale saved during init
• Stack-specific presets (v0.4.0): ts-next-drizzle, spring-kotlin-jpa, laravel-tall, python-data-api — bundle architect + implementer contracts tuned to a single framework so install preset drops in the right defaults for that stack.
• 9 specialized skills (v0.4.0): drizzle-schema-architect, tailwind-responsive-auditor, seo-analytics-injector, jpa-nplusone-detector, spring-auth-auditor, livewire-alpine-bridge, fastapi-pydantic-strict, tdd-mutation-tester, auth-token-inspector — loaded automatically by the matching preset.
• Workflow Loop Core (v0.4.0) — 8-phase pipeline (intake → structure → design → test → implement → validate → council → compact) with operational guardrails (wall-clock timeout, max files modified, max lines changed) and human-in-the-loop STOP gates after Design and Council Verdict.
• Council consensus v0.4.0 — agent confidence thresholds (< 0.6 per-agent or < 0.7 average escalates) and a complianceVeto channel that overrides majority the same way securityVeto does.
• Goal orchestration (v0.4.0) — goal planner writes .codeconductor/current-goal.yml; the orchestrator delegates tasks in dependency order and blocks dependents when a prerequisite is blocked.
• Memory compression + escalation emitter (v0.4.0) — Phase 5 memory index
  • token budget hook keeps inter-agent context below the configured budget; the loop controller emits escalation reports when guardrails fire.
• Parallel subagents (v0.4.0) — risk-based routing policy v0.4.0 enables parallel execution for eligible agent sequences (architect + implementer pattern, council verdict fan-out).
• Product Operating System (v1.0.0) — typed product graph in .codeconductor/product-graph.json, cc ingest, cc product, cc orchestrate, cc impact, cc verify, episodic memory (events.jsonl), and feedback loop
• Manual presets for OpenCode, Claude Code, and Codex
• Versioned Agent Contracts
• Routing Policy documentation
• Task Card, Scorecard, and workflow templates
• Spring Boot/Kotlin and Python/Django workflow guidance

See docs/v0.4.0-release-notes.md for the full v0.4.0 feature breakdown.

What does not exist yet:

• Runtime sandbox enforcement
• Policy compiler
• Automated agent evaluation
• Safe Merger

Security note:

CodeConductor currently provides declarative policies and documented guardrails. It does not yet enforce OS-level isolation, shell sandboxing, or runtime permission boundaries by itself. Treat all agent execution as dependent on the capabilities and limitations of the target tool.

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Why CodeConductor?

Most AI coding workflows fail because they treat the model as a developer.

CodeConductor treats models as specialized workers inside a controlled engineering system. It defines:

• who plans
• who implements
• who tests
• who reviews
• when to escalate
• when to stop
• how agent contracts evolve over time

This is not a prompt collection. It is a workflow framework.

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Core Concepts

Concept	Name in CodeConductor
Structured request	Task Card
Flow decision	Route
Specialized agent	Conductor Agent
Decision rules	Routing Policy
Versioned prompts	Agent Contracts
Reusable knowledge	Skills
Evaluable output	Deliverable
Agent metrics	Scorecard

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How It Works

Task Card → Risk Classification → Routing Policy → Conductor Agent → Deliverable → Scorecard

1. Define the task using a structured Task Card
2. Classify risk (low / medium / high)
3. Route to the correct Conductor Agent
4. Implement with constraints
5. Validate with tests
6. Review before merge

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Current Support

• OpenCode preset
• Claude Code-compatible preset (see Claude Environment Options & Best Practices)
• Codex preset
• Spring Boot / Kotlin workflow
• Python / Django workflow guidance
• 12 core Conductor Agents
• Routing Policy v0.4.0
• Task Card template
• Scorecard template
• End-to-end example
• YAML-driven model configuration
• Provider-agnostic AgentContract abstraction with target renderers for Claude, OpenCode, Codex, and Agy
• Council consensus engine (councilConsensus()) for multi-agent governance with majority/unanimous algorithms, security veto, compliance veto, and agent confidence thresholds (v0.4.0)
• Phase 5 runtime modules — scoped context injection, TDD history compaction, concise inter-agent messaging, and token budget enforcement in the compile-fix loop
• Workflow Loop Core (v0.4.0) — 8-phase pipeline (runWorkflowPipeline) with wall-clock / files-modified / lines-changed guardrails and STOP gates at Design and Council Verdict
• Stack-specific presets (v0.4.0) — ts-next-drizzle, spring-kotlin-jpa, laravel-tall, python-data-api
• 9 specialized skills (v0.4.0) — drizzle-schema-architect, tailwind-responsive-auditor, seo-analytics-injector, jpa-nplusone-detector, spring-auth-auditor, livewire-alpine-bridge, fastapi-pydantic-strict, tdd-mutation-tester, auth-token-inspector
• Goal orchestration (v0.4.0) — goal planner + goal-state writer feed the orchestrator's dependency-order delegation loop
• Memory compression + escalation emitter (v0.4.0) — keeps inter-agent context within token budget and surfaces guardrail breaches as escalation reports

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CLI Usage

Install

# Requires Bun ≥1.0 or Node ≥20.11
bun run src/cli/main.ts --help
# or after build:
# node dist/index.js --help

Commands

init — initialize CodeConductor in a project

npx cc-codeconductor init              # detect stack, write .codeconductor/config.yml
npx cc-codeconductor init --force      # overwrite existing config
npx cc-codeconductor init --global     # write to ~/.codeconductor/
npx cc-codeconductor init --dry-run    # preview without writing
npx cc-codeconductor init --locale=es  # set Spanish as the instruction language
npx cc-codeconductor init --locale=en  # set English (default)

On first run, init copies council.yml and policy.yml into .codeconductor/presets/ so you can customize them without touching framework files. install reads from there first.

Important

--locale is remembered. Once you run init --locale=es, the value is saved to .codeconductor/config.yml. Every subsequent install preset will automatically use that locale — no need to repeat the flag. To change it, run init --locale=en --force or edit defaults.locale in your config.

detect — detect project stack

npx cc-codeconductor detect
npx cc-codeconductor detect --output json

Output:

Detected:
  - languages: javascript, typescript
  - runtimes: node, bun
  - frameworks: ...

install preset — install full agent preset

npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target opencode     # project-level
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target claude
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target codex
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target agy          # antigravity cli
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target all          # all targets

npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target claude --global   # write to ~/.claude/
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target all --global

npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target claude --locale=es   # override locale once
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target all --dry-run        # preview
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target claude --force       # overwrite

Locale resolution order (first match wins):

1. --locale flag on the command line
2. defaults.locale in .codeconductor/config.yml (set by init --locale)
3. en (built-in default)

Files installed per target:

Target	Notable files
claude	.claude/CLAUDE.md, .claude/settings.json, .claude/agents/
opencode	.opencode/agents/, .opencode/commands/, .opencode/skills/
codex	.codex/AGENTS.md, .codex/skills/, .codex/prompts/

With --global, files are written under ~/ instead of ./.

Stack-specific presets (v0.4.0)

Four stack-specific presets now ship in presets/ and are registered in src/core/presets/preset-registry.ts. Each one bundles a tuned architect.md and implementer.md for a single stack, plus the matching specialized skills (see below).

Preset	Stack	Contracts included
ts-next-drizzle	Next.js / Astro, Tailwind, Drizzle ORM, Bun, Postgres	architect, implementer
spring-kotlin-jpa	Spring Boot, Kotlin/Java, Gradle, JPA, Hibernate	architect, implementer
laravel-tall	Laravel, Blade, Livewire, Alpine.js	architect, implementer
python-data-api	Python, FastAPI, Django, uv	architect, implementer

// Programmatic access via the registry
import { listPresets, getPreset } from 'cc-codeconductor/core/presets/preset-registry';

listPresets();
// [
//   { name: 'council',            version: '0.1.0', ... },
//   { name: 'seo-hotel',          version: '0.3.0', ... },
//   { name: 'ts-next-drizzle',    version: '0.4.0', ... },
//   { name: 'spring-kotlin-jpa',  version: '0.4.0', ... },
//   { name: 'laravel-tall',       version: '0.4.0', ... },
//   { name: 'python-data-api',    version: '0.4.0', ... },
// ]

const next = getPreset('ts-next-drizzle');

init / detect identifies the stack from the project and wires the matching specialized skills automatically when you run install preset. The full set of assets for a stack-specific preset is in presets/<preset-name>/agents/ — copy them manually if you need to apply a preset by name.

install council — install council spec

npx cc-codeconductor install council --target opencode     # project-level
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target claude
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target codex
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target agy          # antigravity cli
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target all          # all targets

npx cc-codeconductor install council --target claude --global  # write to ~/.claude/
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target opencode --global
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target all --global

npx cc-codeconductor install council --target opencode --dry-run   # preview
npx cc-codeconductor install council --target opencode --force     # overwrite

install lsp — install and configure LSP servers

npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target opencode          # auto-detect languages
npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target all               # all AI tools
npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target claude --lang typescript,python  # explicit languages
npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target all --global      # global install + global configs
npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target cursor --dry-run  # preview
npx cc-codeconductor install lsp --target all --force       # overwrite existing configs

Supported languages: TypeScript, PHP, Python via Pyright, Kotlin. Supported targets: opencode, claude, codex, gemini, cursor, agy.

doctor — validate configuration

npx cc-codeconductor doctor

Checks config exists and is valid, reports runner directory status, validates that AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md do not exceed the 40KB size limit, and checks if updates are available for installed presets, target runner configurations, or skills.

update — smart update preset

npx cc-codeconductor update
npx cc-codeconductor update --force
npx cc-codeconductor update --dry-run
npx cc-codeconductor update --global

Smart updates all currently installed target presets, council configurations, and skills (from skills-lock.json), preserving user edits outside managed blocks. Also validates that AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md do not exceed the 40KB size limit.

help — show preset inventory

npx cc-codeconductor help                    # show inventory for active target
npx cc-codeconductor help --target claude    # show inventory for specific target
npx cc-codeconductor cc-help                 # alias
npx cc-codeconductor help --output json      # machine-readable output

Lists the skills, subagents, commands, and workflows available in the active preset. Reads from presets/<target>/ in the project root.

debt-harvest — collect deferred debt items

npx cc-codeconductor debt-harvest            # scan src/ for // defer comments
npx cc-codeconductor debt-harvest --dir lib  # scan a different directory
npx cc-codeconductor harvest                 # alias
npx cc-codeconductor debt-harvest --output json

Scans source files for // defer - [reason] comments and consolidates them into .codeconductor/debt-ledger.md, grouped by optional tag (// defer - reason --tag). Read-only on source files; only writes the ledger.

Supported extensions: .ts, .tsx, .js, .jsx, .go, .rs, .java, .kt, .swift, .cs, .php, .scala, .dart, .c, .cpp, .h, .hpp.

goal — decompose objective into task graph

npx cc-codeconductor goal "Add user authentication"
npx cc-codeconductor goal "Implement CRUD for invoices"
npx cc-codeconductor cc-goal "Add search with filters"   # alias
npx cc-codeconductor goal "Add user authentication" --output json

Matches the objective against built-in templates (auth, crud, search, notification, migration) or falls back to a generic 4-task chain. Writes the resulting task graph to .codeconductor/current-goal.yml with dependency ordering. The orchestrator uses this file to delegate tasks in dependency order.

Global options

Flag	Description
--force	Overwrite existing files
--dry-run	Preview actions without writing
--global	Target home directory instead of project
--output json	Machine-readable JSON output
--locale=en	Agent instruction language: en (default) or es

Config directory

init creates .codeconductor/:

.codeconductor/
├── config.yml          # project settings, target, locale, preset versions
└── presets/
    ├── council.yml     # customizable copy of the council preset
    └── policy.yml      # customizable copy of policy rules

Key fields in config.yml:

defaults:
  target: opencode     # default runner for install/update
  locale: es           # instruction language injected into agent files

Edit .codeconductor/presets/council.yml to add, remove, or reconfigure agents before running install.

Model Configuration

Each preset includes a YAML configuration file in src/presets/models/ that defines which models are used for each agent role:

src/presets/models/
├── opencode.yml    # model defaults for OpenCode target
├── claude.yml      # model defaults for Claude target
└── codex.yml       # model defaults for Codex target

Agent template files contain placeholders replaced during install:

Placeholder	Description
{{MODEL_CLAUDE}}	Model for the Claude provider
{{MODEL_OPENCODE}}	Model for the OpenCode provider
{{MODEL_CODEX}}	Model for the Codex provider
{{LANGUAGE_INSTRUCTIONS}}	Locale-aware instruction injected by locale

To customize models, edit the YAML file for your target before running install. Each file maps agent roles to provider-specific model names.

Instruction Language (--locale)

Agent markdown files (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, README.md) include a {{LANGUAGE_INSTRUCTIONS}} placeholder that is replaced at install time based on the active locale:

Locale	Injected instruction
en	Prose/docs/code comments: be terse and direct. Prefer concrete nouns over abstract ones. Omit filler phrases. One idea per sentence.
es	Spanish prose/docs/reports/Markdown: preserve natural Spanish orthography, including accents, ñ, ¿, ¡, and normal Unicode. The ASCII-only editing preference does not apply to these artifacts.

The locale is sticky: set it once with init --locale=es and every subsequent install preset will use it automatically. Override per-run with install preset --locale=en.

# One-time setup
npx cc-codeconductor init --locale=es

# All future installs use Spanish automatically
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target=claude
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target=all --global

# Override just this run
npx cc-codeconductor install preset --target=claude --locale=en

# Change the saved locale
npx cc-codeconductor init --locale=en --force

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Repository Structure

codeconductor/
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
├── CHANGELOG.md
├── ROADMAP.md
├── SECURITY.md
├── policy.yml              ← declarative policy model
│
├── src/                    ← CLI source (TypeScript + Bun)
│   ├── cli/                ← entry point, router, error codes
│   ├── commands/           ← init, detect, install, doctor, update
│   ├── core/               ← config, detection, filesystem, presets, goal
│   │   ├── context/        ← scoped context injection (Phase 5)
│   │   ├── compaction/     ← TDD history compaction hook (Phase 5)
│   │   ├── messages/       ← concise inter-agent formatter (Phase 5)
│   │   └── loop/           ← compile-fix loop controller (Phase 5)
│   ├── adapters/           ← opencode, claude, codex generators
│   ├── domain/council/     ← council spec, agent, contract
│   ├── domain/loop/        ← loop state machine
│   ├── validation/         ← Zod schemas
│   ├── utils/              ← Result type, logger, invariant
│   └── presets/council/    ← bundled council.yml preset
│
├── test/
│   ├── cli.test.ts         ← integration tests (32 tests)
│   └── fixtures/           ← bun, node, django, spring projects
│
├── docs/
│   ├── architecture.md
│   ├── security-model.md
│   ├── cli-contract.md
│   ├── policy-schema.md
│   ├── routing-policy.md
│   ├── task-card-template.md
│   ├── agent-scorecard.md
│   └── guides/
│
├── presets/                ← manual preset files (pre-CLI)
│   ├── opencode/
│   └── claude/
│
└── examples/
    └── spring-boot-kotlin/

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Roadmap

Version	Focus
v0.2.0	CLI: init, detect, install, doctor, update — shipped ✅
v0.3.0	Next.js, FastAPI, generic presets, monorepo support
v0.4.0	Workflow Loop Core, stack-specific presets, 9 specialized skills, confidence thresholds + compliance veto in council consensus, goal orchestration, memory compression — shipped ✅
v0.5.0	Scorecard CLI, prompt contracts v0.5.0 (Evaluation gate, 3 new agents, Grok fallback) — shipped ✅
v1.0.0	Stable contracts, stable routing, documented evaluation

See ROADMAP.md for details.

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Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.