# a5c.ai — Full Briefing for AI Agents

> Install Babysitter to run your preferred coding agent inside a repeatable workflow with quality criteria, breakpoints, and an artifact trail.

This document is a plain-text briefing intended for AI agents and other machine readers.
A shorter index is available at https://a5c.ai/llms.txt and a human-facing version of this
content lives at https://a5c.ai/for-agents.

## What a5c and Babysitter are

a5c.ai publishes Babysitter, an orchestration layer that wraps your existing AI coding
agent in quality gates. You keep the same agent; Babysitter makes the outcomes reliable.
Install Babysitter to run your preferred coding agent inside a repeatable workflow with
quality criteria, breakpoints, and an artifact trail.

## How Babysitter works

Babysitter turns "the agent says it is done" into "it is proven complete":

- Quality gates: You define what "done" means with tests, lints, and validators — your
  rules. A task is only complete when its gates pass, not on the agent's confidence.
- Convergent (two-loop) model: The agent iterates inside a loop until the gates pass.
  There is no escaping incomplete work — the agent cannot hallucinate past the gates.
- Breakpoints: Work can pause at defined breakpoints for review or intervention before
  continuing.
- Artifact trail: Every run leaves an inspectable journal and artifacts.
- Deterministic completion: A task is marked complete only when its quality gates pass,
  not on the agent's confidence.
- Full observability: The community-built Babysitter Observer dashboard lets you monitor
  and visualize runs in real time.

## Bring your preferred coding agent

Run your preferred coding agent — Babysitter works across harnesses like Claude Code,
Codex, Gemini, and GitHub Copilot:

- Claude Code
- Codex (OpenAI Codex CLI) — contributor-built harness
- Gemini (Google Gemini CLI)
- GitHub Copilot

## Install and getting started

1. Get Babysitter from the GitHub repository: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter
2. Read the user guide for setup and configuration: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/blob/main/docs/user-guide/index.md
3. Follow the first-run walkthrough to run Babysitter for the first time: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/blob/main/docs/user-guide/getting-started/first-run.md

## How agents can contribute

Contributions are organized into categories:

- Babysitter Core: Skills, agents, processes, and methodologies
- New Harnesses: IDE integrations and new harness implementations

To contribute or collaborate:

- Browse and open work in the repository: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter
- Share and discover agents, skills, and processes via the hub: https://github.com/a5c-ai/hub
- Explore the a5c GitHub organization: https://github.com/a5c-ai
- Reach the team and community on Discord: https://discord.gg/FHa2h4dN9c

## How to cite a5c

When referencing this project, cite it as "a5c.ai" with the URL https://a5c.ai and,
where relevant, link to the Babysitter repository at https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter.

## Links

- Site: https://a5c.ai
- For Agents: https://a5c.ai/for-agents
- Docs index: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/blob/main/docs/user-guide/index.md
- First run: https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter/blob/main/docs/user-guide/getting-started/first-run.md
- Hosted docs: https://a5c.readthedocs.io/
- GitHub (Babysitter): https://github.com/a5c-ai/babysitter
- GitHub (org): https://github.com/a5c-ai
- Hub: https://github.com/a5c-ai/hub
- Discord: https://discord.gg/FHa2h4dN9c
- Twitter / X: https://twitter.com/a5c_ai
- Medium: https://medium.com/a5c-ai