The Herd
Agent team governance framework.
Execution-agnostic roles, authority models, decision capture, and craft standards for AI agent teams.
Your agent framework runs the agents. The Herd runs the team.
Status
Pre-release — package name reserved. First functional release coming soon.
What is The Herd?
The Herd is a governance framework for AI agent teams. It provides:
- Canonical role definitions with authority boundaries
- Craft standards that shape how agents work, not just what they do
- Decision capture (HDR — Herd Decision Records) from natural conversation
- Pluggable execution — bring your own agent engine (Claude Code, Codex, CrewAI, or anything else)
- Team topology — multi-team, multi-machine, multi-engine in one config file
- QA gates with tiered validation (automated + architectural review)
Architecture
The Herd is modular by design:
| Package | Purpose |
|---|---|
herd-core |
Core framework, interfaces, topology, roles, HDR, craft |
herd-agent-claude |
Execution adapter for Claude Code CLI |
herd-store-duckdb |
Storage adapter (local DuckDB + MotherDuck) |
herd-ticket-linear |
Ticket lifecycle adapter (reference implementation) |
herd-repo-github |
Repository operations (PRs, branches, commits) |
herd-notify-slack |
Notification output |
Quick Start (coming soon)
pip install herd-core herd-agent-claude herd-store-duckdb
herd init
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
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