A person in a bathrobe holding coffee, peering from a cozy kitchen into a smoky robot control floor.

OverlordDaycare

The AIs think they run things. You're the babysitter.

Get the starter kit on GitHub

Plain bash and git. MIT licensed. Merging asks you first, by default.

Overlord Daycare is an open-source starter kit for putting AI coding agents to work as a supervised crew. A coordinator agent delegates each task, worker agents build it in isolated checkouts, and reviewers from a different model family read every diff before it counts. You set the rules and the merge gates; the daycare handles the schedule.

How it works

  1. You set the rules

    Which agents may run, what they're allowed to touch, which tests must pass, and who signs off on a merge. House rules, written down once.

  2. The coordinator delegates

    One long-running coordinator agent turns your rules into short, bounded briefs and hands each to a worker in its own isolated checkout.

  3. Workers build, reviewers check

    Workers edit, test, and commit. A reviewer that didn't write the code reads the exact diff and files a verdict before anything can ship.

  4. It merges, you peek in

    Tests green, review clean, gates passed. The change lands, and a summary of the day waits where you left your coffee.

A crowned robot with a whistle and a clipboard on a catwalk, warm domestic doorway and slippers beside it.
The coordinator on rounds. The crown is ceremonial; the clipboard is not.

By default, the final gate is a human. Full-auto merging is strictly opt-in, and even then nothing lands without green tests and a clean independent review.

Pacing

Every AI plan you pay for refills on a clock and drains as work runs. Burn through it too fast and you're rationed before the month is out; burn too slowly and the reset quietly repossesses what you paid for.

The pacing dashboard reads each plan and tells the coordinator how many lanes may run right now, so spending lands level across the month. No pool runs dry early, and none sits untouched at reset.

One gauge per plan. The dashboard's whole job is keeping them level.

A living room in the evening; on a laptop screen, the robot floor is hard at work.
Checking in from the couch. The floor doesn't know you're watching.

Checking in

Your job is rules and spot-checks, not supervision. From the couch you can see what's building, what's waiting on review, and what merged while you made coffee.

Anything that genuinely needs a human arrives with a recommendation attached. Everything else keeps moving without you.

Needs you

Approve the cleanup merge — recommended: yes