tend

Tend allows open-source projects to have an agent as a dutiful junior maintainer. The agent can review PRs, triage issues, fix CI, help out with research, maintain a changelog, sweep the repo for improvements, refine documentation, etc.

Current status: Tend is in its early days. It has been working extremely well in Worktrunk for the past couple of months, such that folks suggested I generalize it into its own project.

Structure

To use Tend, a project needs:

• A GitHub account for the agent (for example this project's is @tend-agent)
• One of:
• A Claude Max subscription (harness = "claude")
• An OpenAI API key (harness = "codex"). A ChatGPT subscription via

a Codex auth.json is not compatible with tend's concurrent workflows — see Codex (alternative).

Tend offers the default code & guidance for the agent. Specifically that means:

• A set of workflow templates
• A very particular set of Skills
• ...skills it has acquired over a very long career (two months)

Each project's agent remains completely under its control, and runs only in the project's Github Actions environment. The Tend project never sees any tokens / keys / etc.

Quick start

The easiest way to get started is to install the Tend plugin into a local Claude Code session, and run the /install-tend skill: