shepherd-agents / shepherd
A runtime substrate that turns an agent's execution into a reversible, Git-like trace, so meta-agents can observe, fork, replay, and revert any run. Couples agent and environments in a copy-on-write fork ~5x faster than docker commit, with ~95% KV-cache reuse on replay. Framework built for meta-agents to supervise, optimize, and train other agents
github.com/shepherd-agents/shepherdIndexed at 8e703a6Up to date with upstream
About this codebase
1,841 files and 27,182 symbols in 12 modules, led by Python (1,594 files) and Shell (11).
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Code health
This codebase scores 7.7 out of 10 for code health, which we rate good. It also scores maintainability 7.8 and static performance 9.9 out of 10. The three are scored separately and never blended into one number. Risk is concentrated, as it usually is: 114 of 1,841 files are git hotspots, and they average 6.4 — which is where the fixes pay off most.
On the leaderboards:#6 of 44 Python repos
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1 thing worth doing this quarter.
Worth planning
Delete 113 unused symbols and files (1,541 lines)
Nothing in the graph reaches them, across 40 files; every reader and agent pays to skip them.
- symbols
- 113
- lines
- 1,541
- safe to delete
- Yes(inferred)
Medium effort
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Add a test coverage report
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- line coverage
- Unknown, no report
Small effort
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[](https://repowise.dev/repo/shepherd-agents/shepherd?src=badge_card)How shepherd-agents/shepherd works
A runtime substrate that turns an agent's execution into a reversible, Git-like trace, so meta-agents can observe, fork, replay, and revert any run. Couples agent and environments in a copy-on-write fork ~5x faster than docker commit, with ~95% KV-cache reuse on replay. Framework built for meta-agents to supervise, optimize, and train other agents This page is a map of the shepherd-agents/shepherd repository, written primarily in Python, rebuilt from the source each time it is indexed. Repowise parses every symbol, computes a dependency graph, scores per-file code health from complexity, duplication, test coverage and churn, mines git history for hotspots and ownership, and lifts the architectural decisions into documentation you can read here or query through MCP.
The codebase has 1,841 files and 27,182 symbols in 12 modules, led by Python, Shell and Makefile. Code health is 7.7 out of 10, rated good.
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