Sherpa

Governance for AI agents, built into your codebase.

Sherpa gives Human+AI teams what code review gave engineering: roles, quality gates, and an audit trail for every decision. Watch it run its own development.

The framework

Sherpa Studio is a collaboration framework for agentic workflows with a focus on governance, research, and execution. Behavioral agent definitions. A skills engine. A dispatch pipeline with nine backends. An initiative lifecycle that takes ideas from proposal to integration with review at every step.

It lives in your codebase, versions with git, and works with any AI development environment. The kind of infrastructure that doesn't exist until someone builds it. See the framework.

This is Sherpa governing its own development.

Screenshots from Sherpa Studio — the dashboard this repository runs on, with its real governance data.

Sherpa Studio process workspace showing an initiative tree with lifecycle states and a selected initiative's review trail
73 initiatives tracked from proposal to integration — every node is a real decision with a review trail.
Sherpa Studio task board listing dispatched agent missions with per-backend filter chips
100 dispatched agent missions across 9 backends. 38 shipped.
Sherpa Studio research dashboard showing a heartbeat schedule and dated reports grouped into intelligence streams
Autonomous research running on a heartbeat, 8am–11pm, feeding nine intelligence streams.

Built for our own work. Shared because it should be.

Sherpa governs its own development. The conventions, skills, and initiative lifecycle aren't documentation — they're the production system. When something ships, it goes through the same governance pipeline we open-source.

That's the proof. Not a deck. Not a demo. The system running on itself, in the open.

Our commitment

“Create opportunity just as much as we automate it.”

Almost every agentic system will change how many people a team needs. We know that. We build governance that accounts for people — not just efficiency.

The framework is open source. If you'd like a guide, we consult too.