overstory — security grade SAFE, quality 72/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 72/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

by jayminwest · Claude Skill · ★ 1.3k

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About overstory

Overstory Multi-agent orchestration for AI coding agents. Overstory turns a single coding session into a multi-agent team by spawning worker agents in git worktrees via tmux, coordinating them through a custom SQLite mail system, and merging their work back with tiered conflict resolution. A pluggable interface lets you swap between 11 runtimes — Claude Code, Pi, Gemini CLI, Aider, Goose, Amp, or your own adapter. Warning: Agent swarms are not a universal solution. Do not deploy Overstory without understanding the risks of multi-agent orchestration — compounding error rates, cost amplification, debugging complexity, and merge conflicts are the normal case, not edge cases. Read STEELMAN.md for a full risk analysis and the Agentic Engineering Book (web version) before using this tool in production.

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Quick Facts

Stars1,324
Forks208
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryClaude Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score71.5469776399299/100
Open Issues24
Last Updated2026-05-28
Created2026-02-12
Platformsclaude-code, node
Est. Tokens~384k

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is overstory?

overstory is Multi-agent orchestration for AI coding agents — pluggable runtime adapters for Claude Code, Pi, and more. It is categorized as a Claude Skill with 1.3k GitHub stars.

What programming language is overstory written in?

overstory is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as agent-swarms, ai-agents, claude-code.

How do I install or use overstory?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the overstory GitHub repository at github.com/jayminwest/overstory. The project has 1.3k stars and 208 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does overstory use?

overstory is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to overstory?

The top alternatives to overstory on Agent Skills Hub include agent-deck, ai-maestro, Codeman. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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