The open source alternative
to Devin.
Shipwright is the only MIT-throughout, spec-to-deploy autonomous delivery agent that runs entirely in your own cloud — control plane included. It runs on your infrastructure, on your codebase; your code never leaves your control. Created and maintained by App Vitals.
Free · MIT Licensed
Created by App Vitals
We build it.
We ship with it daily.
Shipwright was created by Dan McAulay and Dave O'Dell — the co-founders of App Vitals. It's the autonomous coding system we use to ship production work across our own engagements. We didn't build a demo — we built the pipeline we trust with real codebases, every day.
We open sourced it because we believe that when an AI agent has write access to your codebase, you should own the system. Not rent it. Shipwright is MIT licensed, self-hosted, and free — and App Vitals is the team maintaining it and pushing it forward.
How it works
One command.
Plan → Build → Review → Ship.
Shipwright turns a task in your queue into a tested, reviewed, CI-green PR — autonomously. Two modes, same engine.
Plugin Mode
Inside Claude Code
Install the plugin, run /shipwright:dev-task, and watch it pick the next ready task, write tests first, implement the feature, and open a reviewed, green PR. You stay in the loop where it matters.
/plugin install shipwright@app-vitals/shipwright Cloud Agent Mode
Deploy to Docker / Kubernetes / GitHub Actions
Deploy the agent to your cloud. DM it in Slack. @mention it in a thread. Drop a voice note. It picks the next ready task, ships the PR, and forwards metrics to your dashboard — while you sleep. 10 cron jobs out of the box.
Why open source
Not renting you an AI engineer.
Giving you one.
Your code, your control
The managed-agent market is full of "trust us" SaaS. Your code goes to their servers, priced at their rates, on their terms. Shipwright runs in your environment. MIT licensed. Fork it. Own it. No lock-in.
Same bar as human code
Tests land with the code, every time. CI must be green before merge. No exceptions. Shipwright is built to the same review and quality standards your engineers already use — because we use it on real production codebases.
Metrics on your pipeline
First-time-quality rate. Estimation accuracy. Review-verdict trends. Cycle time. Your data, running locally on SQLite or against your own PostHog. No external dashboards, no vendor accounts.
Quickstart
5 minutes.
No accounts. No secrets.
A few copy-paste commands spin up the metrics dashboard locally. Offline by default.
Full docs at shipwrightharness.com →Run in your terminal
Set up Shipwright Harness locally and open the metrics dashboard.
1. In a terminal, run:
git clone https://github.com/app-vitals/shipwright.git
&& cd shipwright && ./scripts/quickstart.sh 2. Install the plugin:
/plugin install shipwright@app-vitals/shipwright 3. Open the dashboard:
http://localhost:3460/dashboard Want us to install it for you? · Design Partners
Dan and Dave.
In your environment. End to end.
Shipwright is free and open source — install it yourself anytime. But if your engineering org wants the founders of Shipwright to install it, configure it to your codebase, and run alongside your team through the first 8–10 weeks, that's our Design Partner program.
Design partners get a reduced-rate pilot, weekly working sessions with Dan and Dave, and direct influence on the roadmap. In exchange, we ask for real engagement, honest feedback, and permission to share results — even when we anonymize the specifics.
We're taking a small cohort. If you want autonomous programming installed and running by the people who built it, we'd like to talk.
What a pilot looks like
- — 8–10 weeks, install to hand-off
- — Weekly working sessions with Dan and Dave
- — Reduced-rate pilot pricing, shaped to scope
- — Direct influence on the Shipwright roadmap
Two ways to get started.
Free · Open Source
Install it yourself
MIT licensed. Clone the repo, run the quickstart, have the metrics dashboard up in 5 minutes. No accounts required.
Get Started Free → ⭐ Star on GitHubDesign Partner · App Vitals
Have us install it
Dan and Dave handle the install, configuration, and first 8–10 weeks alongside your team. Limited cohort.
Book a Discovery Call →