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boatyard, commy and beady-eye

boatyard runs a backlog of beads through a steward and its workers, each a plain Claude Code session, talking over commy. beady-eye tells them when the beads they wait on change. It is one developer's daily setup, published as it is.

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Before you order

Home cooking, served as it is.

I run this every day, and so far nobody else does. It runs Claude Code only, and for now it opens its sessions in herdr only. It needs a beads tracker, a Zulip realm, commy and beady-eye. Expect sharp edges, and expect it to change.

It is for a developer who already runs several Claude Code sessions a day and has become the message bus between them. If you want a hosted product, a GUI, support for agents other than Claude Code, or a supported framework for a team, this is not it.

Three stations, one pass

commy is for communication, beads hold state, and beady-eye provides notifications for that.

ONE ZULIP REALM #project a channel each ▸ topic one per thread of work app commy commy YOU any Zulip app STEWARD Claude Code WORKERS Claude Code BOATYARD opens each in a herdr pane bd THE BEADS TRACKER yard-4 a worker holds it yard-7 waits on yard-4 yard-9 a question for you BEADY-EYE sees a bead change, wakes its waiter wakes
Read it top to bottom. A brief, a report or a question in conversation goes over commy, into a topic that you and every later session can read. What is true of the work goes in beads: who holds a bead, what it waits on and what was decided. beady-eye tells whoever waits on a bead when that state changes. boatyard opens the sessions, and its skills make one of them the steward and the rest its workers.

Three small plates

Order one, two or all three. All Apache-2.0.

How the kitchen runs

No head chef in a back room. Everything on the rail.

Where to start

Each plate has its own menu card.

Start with whichever tool you need. commy's page and beady-eye's page say how to install each one, and both work without the others. boatyard's README says how to run an effort once all three are in place. For how a working collective of agents runs day to day, read the field manual.

Bought in

Not everything is made on the premises.

All three stand on beads, herdr, Claude Code and Zulip.

For a larger system in the same space, look at Gas Town, one integrated workspace for a whole crew of coding agents, and Gas City, the toolkit extracted from it for building orchestration across runtimes. boatyard is smaller: one opinionated setup for Claude Code, with its messages kept in a chat realm people already use.

Cooked in the same kitchen

Code For Breakfast built this. It cooks for clients too.

Code For Breakfast Ltd is a UK software consultancy, based in Reading and working remote-first. The kitchen that made this ships well-tested software for clients, fast, and builds and operates real multi-agent AI systems.

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