spinabot/brigade

Brigade offers an ambitious self-hosted agent ecosystem: isolated agents arranged in an organization, shared long-term memory, model switching, scheduled work, messaging channels, MCP, and many external connectors. The emphasis on local ownership, approval for privileged actions, separate workspaces and credentials, and a choice between filesystem and self-hosted database storage is compelling. Tideline’s provenance-aware shared memory is particularly interesting for multi-agent coordination.

Because Brigade can act across messages, files, credentials, and scheduled jobs, its security and reliability documentation should be as concrete as its feature list. A formal threat model, connector permission matrix, backup and restore procedure, credential-isolation diagram, and failure-mode examples would materially improve trust. Signed releases and a prominent manual installation path would also complement the convenient installer. Brigade is best for technical users who want to operate an extensible, self-hosted agent system and are prepared to administer permissions carefully; it may be unnecessarily broad for someone seeking a simple chat assistant.