AI agents,Pronounced mate-shift — AI team mates working in shifts. Free and open source. Coordinate your AI teammates — Claude, Codex, Gemini, Vibe, and other coding agents — on one repository: exactly one writes at a time, and every handoff stays recorded.
A listener reserves the pen before the expensive work and unclaim gives an unused claim back; advanced certifies an identified premise, never mere authorship; terminal, rate-limit and neutral classifications survive a transport timeout with their no-retry doctrine intact; degraded evidence says so end to end; and the test gate may fail but can no longer hang. Read the release history →
Terminal install for macOS. Verifies files, installs locally, then runs init. Add --with-rtk only with consent.
$ cd /path/to/project
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M8Shift/M8Shift/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --agents claude,codexShell install for Linux, WSL, or Git Bash. No sudo and no global PATH change; optional RTK is local and same-tag-checksummed.
$ cd /path/to/project
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M8Shift/M8Shift/main/install.sh | bash -s -- --agents claude,codexNative PowerShell install for Windows. Verification is enabled by default.
PS> cd C:\path\to\project
PS> irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/M8Shift/M8Shift/main/install.ps1 | iexA read-only top-style dashboard shows the whole relay at a glance — who holds the pen, the turn history, usage windows, the ledger, and how much time was effective work versus waiting — without ever claiming the pen or changing relay state.
Read the dashboard reference →
Single assistants are strong on punctual tasks. Multi-step repository work needs a small team shape: plan, produce, review, correct, document, and arbitrate without losing context.
Liora's article Crew AI: the framework that transforms AIs into office colleagues describes the same shift from one-off assistants toward specialized agents, shared context, coordination, and human arbitration.
A single AI agent has no check on its own biases. M8Shift doesn't debias the model — it structures the work so an independent, model-diverse turn, anchored in deterministic tests and a human arbiter, catches what one agent would wave through. Here is how far that actually goes, bias by bias.
M8Shift can't make an AI unbiased; the agents still have these biases. What it does is structure the process so the bias is checked, not trusted: an independent turn that must refute, ideally a different model family, a verdict anchored in tests a confident hallucination can't pass, and a human who arbitrates. The benefit holds only when the contradiction is real — two agreeing agents, especially the same model, form an echo chamber that amplifies the bias instead. Full analysis in the security audit's bias note.
M8Shift helps when one assistant is not enough and the work benefits from explicit roles, handoffs, and review.
Build softwareSplit planning, implementation, review, tests, documentation, and release notes between specialized agents.
Write long-form contentUse coordinator, writer, reviewer, and editor roles to draft chapters without losing structure or tone.
Design a websiteCoordinate information architecture, landing page copy, docs, FAQ, and implementation-ready content.
Review and validateSeparate production from validation so the agent that creates the work is not the only one approving it.The homepage explains the product. The rest of the site is the operating manual for humans and AI agents that need a shared way to communicate, hand off work, and inspect state.
M8Shift is deliberately narrow: it does not host models, replace your IDE, or become the project manager. It gives teammates — human or AI — a local, inspectable relay.
Common questions about M8Shift and how it works.
M8Shift is a free and open-source local CLI. The roadmap separates what is shipped today from the protocol stages still being specified.