Squad: AI Agent Teams for Any Project

Squad is an innovative open-source tool that brings the power of AI agent teams directly into your development workflow. Instead of a single chatbot, Squad gives you a persistent, evolving team of AI specialists—frontend, backend, tester, lead—who live in your repository, learn your codebase, and collaborate to accelerate your projects.

What Makes Squad Unique?

• Team of Specialists: Each agent has its own context, expertise, and memory. They work in parallel, share decisions, and improve over time.
• Persistent Knowledge: Agents write their learnings and decisions to your repo, so knowledge compounds across sessions and is shared with anyone who clones the project.
• Seamless Integration: Works with GitHub Copilot and VS Code. Just describe what you want to build, and Squad proposes a team, sets up files, and gets to work.
• Transparent Orchestration: Every decision, session, and agent action is logged in markdown files within .squad/, making the process auditable and collaborative.

Getting Started

1. Create a Project:

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   mkdir my-project && cd my-project
   git init

2. Install Squad:

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   npm install -g @bradygaster/squad-cli
   squad init

   This creates a .squad/ folder with your team roster and configuration.
3. Authenticate with GitHub:

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   gh auth login

4. Launch Copilot with Squad:

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   copilot --agent squad --yolo

   In VS Code, open Copilot Chat and select the Squad agent. Describe your project, and Squad will propose a team and start collaborating.

Key Features

• Parallel Execution: Multiple agents work simultaneously on tasks like building features, writing tests, and analyzing architecture.
• Session Persistence: Agents resume from checkpoints if interrupted, and all progress is logged.
• SDK-First Mode: Prefer code over markdown? Define your team in TypeScript with squad.config.ts and generate all config files automatically.
• Monorepo Support: Designed for modern codebases with multiple packages and teams.

Why Try Squad?

Squad is ideal for developers who want to:

• Accelerate onboarding and knowledge sharing
• Automate repetitive tasks with specialized AI agents
• Maintain a transparent, auditable record of decisions and progress
• Experiment with the future of collaborative AI development

Note: Squad is currently in alpha. APIs and commands may change, but the project is evolving rapidly with active development.

Explore Squad on GitHub: https://github.com/bradygaster/squad

Bring your own AI-powered team to your next project and experience a new way to build, learn, and collaborate!