lobstah 0.1.0

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+# lobstah
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
+![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)
+![Node](https://img.shields.io/badge/node-%3E%3D20-brightgreen)
+![Platform](https://img.shields.io/badge/platform-macOS%20%7C%20Linux%20%7C%20Windows-blue)
+![Harnesses](https://img.shields.io/badge/harnesses-Claude%20Code%20%7C%20Codex-8A2BE2)
+
+Harness-agnostic, token-efficient supervisor for local coding agents.
+
+One coding agent in a terminal is fine. Three is tab-juggling: which one is
+stuck, which one is waiting on a question nobody saw, which one died forty
+minutes ago? And the cloud sandboxes can't help when the work needs your
+actual machine — private toolchains, local services, unpushed branches,
+credentials that never leave the laptop.
+
+Lobstah runs coding agents like services instead of terminal tabs. Each
+dispatch gets an isolated git worktree; a daemon tells a dead process from a
+wedged one and treats them differently (auto-restart vs. a bounded
+fork-with-nudge ladder); status and evidence land on disk. Supervision spends
+zero tokens — no model watches the models.
+
+## Requirements
+
+- Node 20+, git, pnpm
+- An authenticated harness CLI: `claude` (Claude Code) and/or Codex. Lobstah
+  never handles harness login — you authenticate your own CLI; lobstah invokes it.
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah
+cd lobstah
+pnpm install && pnpm build
+ln -s "$PWD/bin/lobstah" /usr/local/bin/lobstah   # Windows: add .\bin to PATH
+```
+
+## Quick start
+
+```bash
+lobstah init                 # ~/.lobstah + example config
+$EDITOR ~/.lobstah/config.toml
+lobstah daemon &             # under tmux/pm2/launchd for real use
+lobstah dispatch --repo myapp --brief ./brief.md
+```
+
+```toml
+[repos.myapp]
+path  = "~/src/myapp"
+trunk = "main"
+setup = ["pnpm install"]     # runs in each fresh worktree
+```
+
+Every key, with defaults: [docs/configuration.md](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/docs/configuration.md).
+
+Watch, steer, take over:
+
+```bash
+lobstah ls                            # queue, active, recent done
+lobstah status <uuid>                 # reconciled state + last note
+lobstah logs <uuid> --follow          # normalized event stream
+lobstah send <uuid> "also update the docs"   # delivered between turns
+lobstah attach <uuid>                 # open the agent's own session in its worktree
+lobstah swap <uuid> --harness codex   # hand an active dispatch to a fresh session
+lobstah catch <uuid>                  # the evidence: branch, commits, PR, session
+lobstah cancel <uuid>
+lobstah cull --apply                  # sweep aged results and orphaned worktrees
+```
+
+(Prefer the water? `set --bait`, `buoys`, and `buoy` alias `dispatch`, `ls`,
+and `status`.)
+
+Dispatches report six verbs — `working`, `needs-decision`, `blocked`,
+`paused`, `done`, `failed` — validated at the write path. `done` means the
+brief is fulfilled; merging is never the dispatch's job.
+
+Everything lives under `$LOBSTAH_HOME` (default `~/.lobstah`); multiple
+isolated instances are just multiple homes, one daemon per home (enforced).
+
+## When something needs you
+
+Set one config line and the daemon pings you on `needs-decision`, `blocked`,
+`done`, and `failed` — `notifyCommand = "ntfy pub my-topic ..."` — no model in
+the loop. Driving lobstah from an agent session instead? `lobstah man` prints
+the lobsterman's manual: `man wait` blocks until a dispatch needs attention
+(unanswered questions re-fire until answered), and `man init` installs a
+Claude Code Stop hook that parks the session on the fleet and continues the
+turn the moment something does.
+
+## Add-ons
+
+- **Tracker pickup** — `lobstah pick` polls Linear and GitHub outbound (no
+  webhooks, no tunnel), dispatches assigned work, streams status back as
+  comments, forwards replies into the running dispatch, reconciles drift, and
+  optionally merges approved PRs. [docs/pickup.md](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/docs/pickup.md)
+- **OpenClaw plugin** — gives fleet agents `lobstah_dispatch` / `lobstah_status`
+  / `lobstah_send` / `lobstah_cancel` tools and operators a `/lobstah` command.
+  [docs/openclaw.md](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/docs/openclaw.md)
+- **The lobsterman** — one interactive agent session that dispatches,
+  supervises, and hands you outcomes, woken by the `lobstah man` commands.
+  [docs/lobsterman.md](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/docs/lobsterman.md)
+
+## How it holds together
+
+```
+CLI / pick / OpenClaw plugin / anything ──writes──>  ~/.lobstah/queue/
+                                                           │ claim (atomic rename)
+daemon ──spawn──> runner (one per dispatch) ──SDK──> harness CLI
+   │                  │
+   │                  └── worktree per dispatch · status/evidence/events on disk
+   └── dead/wedged classification · bounded restart ladder · zero tokens
+```
+
+Design: [docs/design.md](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/docs/design.md).
+Verified by CI on Linux and Windows, live end-to-end runs on both harnesses,
+and fault-injection drills (SIGKILL'd runners respawn and complete; SIGSTOP'd
+ones are classified wedged, killed cleanly, and recover with a nudge).
+
+## Non-goals
+
+No webhooks or inbound listeners, no merge decisions in core, no tracker
+vocabulary in core, no hosted service.
+
+## License
+
+[MIT](https://github.com/aequitas-labs/lobstah/blob/main/LICENSE)