bouquet

Warning — Alpha Software Bouquet is under active development. APIs, config format, and CLI behavior may change without notice. Use at your own risk.

An orchestration layer for multi-agent coding — multiplexing coding agents across git worktrees with isolated services, all in one tmux session.

cd my-project
bouquet start              # TUI launches, create worktrees, agents spin up

Key Features

	Feature	Details
🌿	Git worktree isolation	Each feature branch gets its own worktree, venv, and node_modules — no cross-contamination
🖥️	Multi-pane services	Run API servers, workers, frontends alongside the agent with automatic port offsetting per worktree
🤖	Agent orchestration	TUI in tmux window 0 to create, switch, and manage worktree-backed agent windows
📋	Task queue	Define a backlog of tasks that get automatically delegated to worktrees — agents pick up work without manual intervention
🔧	Rich configuration	Expressive .bouquet.toml with template expressions ({{ 8000 + BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX }}), per-worktree variables, agent profiles, and multi-service layouts
⚡	Fast bootstrap	CoW-clones .venv/node_modules (APFS), copies .env files, runs uv sync/pnpm install
🔌	Agent-agnostic	Named profiles let you mix Claude, Aider, Codex, or any CLI agent — even different agents per worktree

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Requirements

• Python 3.14+
• tmux (brew install tmux)
• GitHub CLI (optional, brew install gh — enables PR links in TUI and GitHub Issues task backend)
• direnv (optional, brew install direnv)
• Language package managers as needed (uv, pnpm)

Installation

# Run without installing
uvx pybouquet --help

# Or install via pip
pip install pybouquet

# Or from source (development)
git clone https://github.com/promptromp/bouquet.git
cd bouquet
uv sync

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Quick Start

1. Initialize

cd /path/to/your/repo
bouquet init

Creates a .bouquet.toml template. Edit it to configure your project.

2. Start a session

bouquet start

This will:

1. Create a tmux session (bouquet-<project-name>)
2. Launch the orchestrator TUI in window 0
3. Adopt any existing git worktrees
4. Attach you to the session

You can also pass arguments explicitly:

bouquet start my-project --repo /path/to/repo --config /path/to/.bouquet.toml

3. Use the TUI

Key	Action
N	Create a new worktree (opens branch dialog with optional agent profile selector)
S / Enter	Switch to the selected worktree's window
D	Delete the selected worktree and its window
a	Toggle auto-accept for selected worktree (auto-sends "y" at permission prompts)
A	Toggle autopilot mode (auto-schedules tasks by dependency order)
P	Send a prompt to selected or all agent terminal(s) via tmux send-keys
T	Request a status summary from all agents (captures responses)
C	Create a new task in the task queue
X	Pick up the highlighted task (creates worktree and sends task to agent)
M	Complete the highlighted task (optionally remove the associated worktree)
Backspace	Delete the highlighted task from the queue
R	Refresh the worktree list and task queue
Q	Quit (with confirmation — kills the session)

When you create a worktree, bouquet will:

• Create a git worktree with a new branch
• Bootstrap the environment (copy .env files, CoW-clone .venv/node_modules)
• Open a new tmux window with service panes (if configured)
• Launch the agent (e.g. claude) in pane 0

Switch back to the orchestrator: Ctrl-b 0.

4. Stop

bouquet stop

Cleans up all managed worktrees, resets any in-progress tasks back to open, kills the tmux session, and removes state.

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Services

Run dev servers alongside the agent in each worktree window. Define them in .bouquet.toml:

[[services]]
name = "api"
command = "uv run uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port {{ 8000 + BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX }}"

[[services]]
name = "frontend"
command = "npm run dev -- --port {{ 3000 + BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX }}"

[tmux]
layout = "main-vertical"

Each worktree gets a unique index (1, 2, 3, ...) so services bind to different ports automatically.

Template Variables

Variable	Type	Example
BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX	int	1, 2, 3
BOUQUET_WORKTREE_BRANCH	str	feature/auth
BOUQUET_WORKTREE_PATH	str	/path/to/.bouquet-worktrees/feature-auth
BOUQUET_PROJECT_NAME	str	my-project

Arithmetic supported: {{ 8000 + BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX }} → 8001.

The same template variables are also available in [bootstrap] setup_commands, post_deps_commands, and teardown_commands — both as {{ … }} placeholders and as plain shell env vars ($BOUQUET_WORKTREE_INDEX, etc.) — so setup/teardown scripts can provision and reclaim per-worktree resources (databases, queues, …) without external coordination.

No services defined = single pane with just the agent (backward compatible).

Bootstrap hooks: setup_commands vs post_deps_commands vs teardown_commands

The three [bootstrap] hook lists run at different points in the worktree lifecycle:

Hook	When	On failure	Typical use
setup_commands	Before python_deps_command / node_deps_command	Loud — raises SetupCommandsError, worktree → ERROR	private-registry auth (CodeArtifact tokens), provisioning per-worktree DBs / queues
post_deps_commands	After deps install, before direnv_allow (so .venv / node_modules exist)	Loud — same as setup_commands	uv run migrate upgrade head, asset compilation, anything that needs the project's tooling
teardown_commands	Before tmux window kill + git worktree removal (so the on-disk checkout is still reachable)	Best-effort — failures logged, cleanup proceeds	reclaiming external per-worktree resources at remove time (drop DBs, delete queues)

setup_commands and post_deps_commands also have env-capture: any export FOO=bar lines in the user's commands are captured and propagated into both subsequent install commands and the tmux session, so service panes inherit them.

See docs/configuration.md for the full reference.

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Agent Profiles

Named agent configurations so you can switch between Claude, Aider, Codex, etc. per worktree:

[agent]
command = "claude"
default_profile = "claude"

[[agent.profiles]]
name = "claude"
command = "claude"

[[agent.profiles]]
name = "aider"
command = "aider"
args = ["--model", "claude-sonnet-4-20250514"]

When profiles are defined, the TUI's new-worktree dialog shows a profile selector. If no profiles are defined, the top-level command/args are used (backward compatible).

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Activity Detection

Bouquet polls each agent's tmux pane every 2 seconds to infer real-time status:

Status	Meaning
● running (green)	Agent output is actively changing
◆ waiting (yellow)	Agent output stopped and a permission prompt was detected
○ idle (dim)	Agent output hasn't changed for several polls

This replaces the static "active" status with live feedback. The TUI table updates automatically.

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Task Queue

Define a backlog of tasks that agents pick up automatically. Two backends are supported:

Local (SQLite) — default

Tasks are stored in ~/.local/state/bouquet/<project>.tasks.db. No external dependencies.

[task_queue]
backend = "local"
auto_branch_prefix = "task/"

GitHub Issues

Uses your repo's GitHub Issues as the task source. Requires gh CLI authenticated.

[task_queue]
backend = "github"
label_filter = "bouquet"     # only issues with this label appear as tasks
auto_branch_prefix = "task/"

Status mapping: OPEN = open issue, IN_PROGRESS = open issue + in-progress label, DONE = closed issue.

Task workflow

1. Create (c) — opens a dialog to create a task with an optional parent dependency
2. Pick up (x) — creates a worktree from the task, marks it in-progress, and sends the task description to the agent
3. Complete (m) — marks the task as done, optionally removes the associated worktree
4. Reconciliation — on startup, tasks stuck as in-progress (from a crash or quit) are automatically reset to open if their worktree no longer exists

Task Dependencies

Tasks can declare a parent dependency, forming a DAG. A task with an unsatisfied dependency shows as blocked in the queue and cannot be picked up until its parent is done. Cycles are rejected at creation time.

Autopilot

Press A to toggle autopilot mode. When active, bouquet automatically:

• Picks up tasks whose dependencies are satisfied (or have none)
• Runs up to max_autopilot_concurrency tasks in parallel (default 3)
• Enables auto-accept on all autopilot-created worktrees
• Auto-completes tasks when their agent goes idle (~10 seconds)
• Cascades: completing a parent unblocks its children for the next scheduling cycle

[task_queue]
max_autopilot_concurrency = 3    # max parallel worktrees
autopilot_auto_complete = true   # auto-complete IDLE tasks

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Pane Layout

With layout = "main-vertical" and two services:

┌──────────────────┬────────────┐
│                  │   api      │
│   agent (claude) ├────────────┤
│                  │  frontend  │
└──────────────────┴────────────┘

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Logs & Troubleshooting

Bouquet writes a rotating log file to ~/.local/state/bouquet/<project>.log (5 MB × 3 backups). bouquet start prints the path to stderr on launch.

When a worktree creation fails — most often because a setup_commands or post_deps_commands step exited non-zero — the TUI shows a terse toast (Error creating worktree: …) but the captured stdout and stderr from your bash commands land in the log file, along with the phase name (setup_commands vs post_deps_commands), cwd, and exit code. Tail it to debug:

tail -f ~/.local/state/bouquet/<project>.log

The SetupCommandsError raised on failure includes the log file path in its message, so the toast will point you there directly.

teardown_commands failures are best-effort and don't block worktree removal — they log a WARNING-level line in the same log file, so check there if a worktree was removed but external resources weren't reclaimed.

Pass --log-level=DEBUG to bouquet start for more verbose output (e.g. each rendered setup_commands / post_deps_commands / teardown_commands line):

bouquet start --log-level=DEBUG

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Architecture

The Conceptual Stack
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Orchestration Layer             │  ← TUI, agent coordination, task queue
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│         Session / Mux Layer             │  ← tmux sessions, windows, panes
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│         Isolation Layer                 │  ← git worktrees + env isolation
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│         Environment Layer               │  ← venv/node_modules/env vars
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

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Related Projects

Bouquet draws inspiration from and complements several tools in the multi-agent coding space:

• claude-squad — A Go-based TUI for managing multiple Claude Code instances in parallel. Claude-squad focuses on running agents side-by-side with a clean terminal UI. Bouquet goes further with declarative multi-service layouts (API servers, frontends, workers per worktree), a rich template-based configuration language with per-worktree variable expansion, and a task queue for automatic work delegation across agents.

• ruflo — A Rust-based agentic workflow orchestrator with a focus on DAG-based task execution and CI/CD integration. Ruflo takes a pipeline-oriented approach to agent coordination, while bouquet is designed around the developer's local workflow — git worktrees, tmux sessions, and interactive TUI management with live activity detection.

• Claude Code Agent Teams — Anthropic's experimental built-in feature for coordinating multiple Claude Code agents. Agent Teams operates within the Claude Code runtime itself. Bouquet is agent-agnostic (works with Claude, Aider, Codex, or any CLI tool), provides full control over environment isolation, service orchestration, and configuration through .bouquet.toml.