Early days · v0.1 A tracker for agentic workflows

Your agents plan.
You approve.
Chief keeps the record.

Agents improvise around broken steps, bury your feedback in chat scrollback, and report “done” with nothing to show for it. Chief makes the plan a contract: it waits for your approval before it can run, mid-run changes pause for your decision, and every transition lands in an audit log.

Chief never executes anything. It records what a harness plans and what it reports, and it enforces who has to say yes.

★ Star the repo Get started
$ pip install -e . && chief --port 8080
Ship the release notes wf_0142 draft
draftCollect merged PRs since v0.9
draftDraft the changelog
draftPublish to the releases page
review note · you Draft first, publish only after I read it.
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How it works
01 The agent plans

Claude Code — or anything that can make an HTTP call — plans a workflow: one step per unit of work, ordered by explicit dependency edges. It arrives as a draft.

02 You approve — or say what's wrong

A draft cannot take a run until you approve it. Leave review notes on any node; the agent reads them off the plan it fetches before revising. Nothing to repeat.

03 The run stays honest

When the plan stops fitting, the agent proposes an amendment and the run pauses until you decide. Touching finished work is a history edit — never auto-approved.

Install

Running in under a minute

Needs Python 3.11+ and git. One process serves the REST API, the web UI and the MCP endpoint. No build step, no CDN, no separate UI command — and the database is one SQLite file you back up by copying.

Then point Claude Code at it:

claude mcp add --transport http chief http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp/ -s user
terminal 
$ git clone https://github.com/zeroshotmind/chief.git
$ cd chief && python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
$ pip install -e ".[dev]"
$ chief --port 8080
→ serving UI, API and MCP at http://127.0.0.1:8080/

Agents move fast. Keep the record straight.

If human-approved agent workflows are something you want to exist, a star is how you say so.

★ Star zeroshotmind/chief local-first · no auth, no cloud, no telemetry