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babysitter

v6.0.3

Orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows with event-sourced state management, hook-based extensibility, and human-in-the-loop approval

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By a5c.aiLicense: MIT2 GitHub starsUpdated 2 months ago

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Install babysitter for Codex

Installs for the current user
codex plugin marketplace add a5c-ai/babysitter-codex
codex plugin marketplace upgrade babysitter
codex plugin add babysitter@babysitter

Paste and run these commands in a terminal with Codex. They add and refresh the babysitter catalog, then install this plugin.

Compatibility: the page URL and API slug “babysitter-2” remain stable.

  • Codex: babysitter-2@agent-plugin-marketplace → babysitter@babysitter

The installer fetches third-party code from the source repository shown on this page. This directory validates manifest structure and source location, but does not perform a security audit; review the manifest, components, and source before installing.

Get the source manually
git clone https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter-codex

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The repository root is the plugin root.

Plugin files

babysitter/
├── .codex-plugin/plugin.json
├── skills/assimilate/SKILL.md
├── skills/babysit/SKILL.md
├── skills/blueprints/SKILL.md
├── skills/call/SKILL.md
├── skills/check-forbidden-markers/SKILL.md
├── skills/cleanup/SKILL.md
├── skills/contrib/SKILL.md
├── skills/doctor/SKILL.md
├── skills/forever/SKILL.md
├── skills/help/SKILL.md
├── skills/observe/SKILL.md
├── skills/plan/SKILL.md
├── skills/plugins/SKILL.md
├── skills/project-install/SKILL.md
├── skills/resume/SKILL.md
├── skills/retrospect/SKILL.md
├── skills/user-install/SKILL.md
└── skills/yolo/SKILL.md

Included Skills18

assimilateskills/assimilate/SKILL.md

Assimilate an external methodology, harness, or specification into babysitter process definitions with skills and agents.

babysitskills/babysit/SKILL.md

Execute via @babysitter. Use this skill when asked to babysit a task, do anything that is structured process-driven (even a loop) or whenever it is called explicitly. (babysit, babysitter, with a process, orchestrate, orchestrate a run, workflow, loop until, etc.)

blueprintsskills/blueprints/SKILL.md

manage Babysitter blueprints. Use this command to list installed blueprints, browse marketplaces, install, update, uninstall, configure, or create a new blueprint.

callskills/call/SKILL.md

Orchestrate a babysitter run. use this command to start babysitting a complex workflow.

check-forbidden-markersskills/check-forbidden-markers/SKILL.md

Pre-deploy gate that scans built JS chunks for forbidden substring markers (saga-era / obsolete code paths) listed in a project-local forbidden-markers.txt

cleanupskills/cleanup/SKILL.md

Clean up .a5c/runs and .a5c/processes directories. Aggregates insights from completed/failed runs into docs/run-history-insights.md, then removes old run data and orphaned process files.

contribskills/contrib/SKILL.md

Submit feedback or contribute to babysitter project

doctorskills/doctor/SKILL.md

Diagnose babysitter run health - journal integrity, state cache, effects, locks, sessions, logs, and disk usage

foreverskills/forever/SKILL.md

Use this command to start babysitting a never-ending babysitter run.

helpskills/help/SKILL.md

help and documentation for babysitter command usage, processes, skills, agents, and methodologies. use this command to understand how to use babysitter effectively.

observeskills/observe/SKILL.md

Launch the babysitter observer dashboard. Installs and runs the real-time observer UI that watches babysitter runs, displaying task progress, journal events, and orchestration state in your browser.

planskills/plan/SKILL.md

Plan a babysitter run. use this command to plan a complex workflow, without actually running it.

pluginsskills/plugins/SKILL.md

deprecated alias for the Babysitter blueprints command. Use /babysitter:blueprints for marketplace installables.

project-installskills/project-install/SKILL.md

Set up a project for babysitting. Guides you through onboarding a new or existing project — researches the codebase, interviews you about goals and workflows, builds the project profile, installs the best tools, and optionally configures CI/CD integration.

resumeskills/resume/SKILL.md

Resume orchestrating of a babysitter run. use this command to resume babysitting a complex workflow.

retrospectskills/retrospect/SKILL.md

Analysis for a run and its results, process, suggestions for process improvements, process optimizations, fixes, etc. for the next runs.

user-installskills/user-install/SKILL.md

Set up babysitter for yourself. Guides you through onboarding — installs dependencies, interviews you about your specialties and preferences, builds your user profile, and configures the best tools for your workflow.

yoloskills/yolo/SKILL.md

Orchestrate a babysitter run. use this command to start babysitting a complex workflow in a non-interactive mode, without any user interaction or breakpoints in the run.

Plugin manifests1

.codex-plugin/plugin.json
{
  "name": "babysitter",
  "version": "6.0.3",
  "description": "Orchestrate complex, multi-step workflows with event-sourced state management, hook-based extensibility, and human-in-the-loop approval",
  "author": {
    "name": "a5c.ai",
    "email": "[email protected]"
  },
  "license": "MIT",
  "repository": "https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter",
  "keywords": [
    "orchestration",
    "workflow",
    "automation",
    "event-sourced",
    "hooks",
    "TDD",
    "quality-convergence",
    "agent",
    "LLM"
  ],
  "skills": "./skills/",
  "hooks": "./hooks.json",
  "apps": "./.app.json",
  "interface": {
    "displayName": "Babysitter",
    "shortDescription": "Run Babysitter orchestration flows from Codex",
    "longDescription": "Babysitter adds orchestration entrypoints such as $call, $plan, and $resume, plus Codex lifecycle hooks that keep runs and workspace state in sync.",
    "developerName": "a5c.ai",
    "category": "Coding",
    "capabilities": [
      "Interactive",
      "Read",
      "Write"
    ],
    "websiteURL": "https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter",
    "privacyPolicyURL": "https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter",
    "termsOfServiceURL": "https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter",
    "defaultPrompt": [
      "Use Babysitter to start a new orchestration run",
      "Plan a Babysitter workflow before executing it",
      "Resume the latest Babysitter run in this workspace"
    ],
    "brandColor": "#0F766E",
    "composerIcon": "./assets/icon.svg",
    "logo": "./assets/logo.png"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/tree/main/plugins/babysitter-unified/per-harness/codex#readme"
}

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