Huskies

A story-driven development server that manages work items, spawns coding agents, and runs them through a pipeline from backlog to done. Ships as a single Rust binary with an embedded React frontend.

Getting started with Claude Code

1. Download the huskies binary (or build from source — see below).

2. From your project directory, scaffold and start the server:

huskies init --port 3000

This creates a .huskies/ directory with the pipeline structure, project.toml, and .mcp.json. The .mcp.json file lets Claude Code discover huskies' MCP tools automatically.

3. Open a Claude Code session in the same project directory. Claude will pick up the MCP tools from .mcp.json.

4. Tell Claude: "help me set up this project with huskies." Claude will walk you through the setup wizard — generating project context, tech stack docs, and test/release scripts. Review each step and confirm or ask to retry.

Once setup is complete, Claude can create stories, start agents, check status, and manage the full pipeline via MCP tools — no commands to memorize.

Web UI

Huskies also ships an embedded React frontend. Once the server is running, open http://localhost:3000 to see the pipeline board, agent status, and chat interface.

Chat transports

Huskies can be controlled via bot commands in Matrix, WhatsApp, and Slack. Configure a transport in .huskies/bot.toml — see the example files:

• .huskies/bot.toml.matrix.example
• .huskies/bot.toml.whatsapp-meta.example
• .huskies/bot.toml.whatsapp-twilio.example
• .huskies/bot.toml.slack.example

Prerequisites

• Rust (2024 edition)
• Node.js and npm
• Docker (for Linux cross-compilation and container deployment)
• cross (cargo install cross) for Linux static builds

Building for production

cargo build --release

The release binary embeds the frontend via rust-embed. Output: target/release/huskies.

For a static Linux binary (musl, zero dynamic deps):

cross build --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

Docker:

docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml build

Running in development

# Run tests
script/test

# Run the server
cargo run -- --port 3000

# In another terminal, run the frontend dev server
cd frontend && npm install && npm run dev

Configuration lives in .huskies/project.toml. See .huskies/bot.toml.*.example for transport setup.

Releasing

Requires a Gitea API token in .env (GITEA_TOKEN=your_token).

script/release 0.7.1

This bumps version in Cargo.toml and package.json, builds macOS arm64 and Linux amd64 binaries, tags the repo, and publishes a Gitea release with changelog and binaries attached.

License

GPL-3.0. See LICENSE.