modules
add what you need. the rest stays off.
colonizer runs a coding agent in a sandbox for each task. modules are the parts you choose around it: which agent, which models, the skills it can load, chores on a schedule, and add-ons. you turn them on in the cockpit, and most start off.
start here
- claude codeanthropic’s coding agent does the work in each colony, and asks you with clear choices when it needs you.installed by default
- superpowers13 skills that make the agent plan, write tests first and debug methodically.
- headroomsqueezes large tool output, such as json, before the model reads it.
- merge trainmerges green colony pull requests one at a time, and keeps the rest up to date.
settlers
the coding agent that works inside each colony. you pick one; every one speaks the same protocol, so nothing else changes.
- claude codeanthropic’s coding agent does the work in each colony, and asks you with clear choices when it needs you.installed by default
- opencoderun colonies on the open-source opencode agent, with any model you have connected.
- pia lean coding agent with one model and no claude login.
- codexrun colonies on openai’s codex cli with your openai api key.
- grok buildrun colonies on xai’s grok build cli.
- hermesnous research’s hermes agent as a settler.
- gemini cligoogle’s gemini cli as a settler, through the agent client protocol.
model providers
where the model answers come from. keys stay on your machine; a colony only ever holds a placeholder.
- anthropicclaude models, through your claude subscription or an api key.installed by default
- your own model serverrun colonies on a model server on your own machine, network or tailnet.
- deepseekdeepseek’s models through its anthropic-compatible api.
- z.ai (glm)z.ai’s glm models through their anthropic-compatible api.
- qwenalibaba’s qwen models through their anthropic-compatible api.
- openroutermany vendors’ models behind one key.
- openai and compatible apisgpt models, translated so claude code can use them.
- google gemini (native)gemini models in their own api format.
- aws bedrockclaude and other models through your aws account.
skill packs
libraries of instructions a claude code settler can reach for. pinned, read-only, outside the code the pull request is made from.
- archifydraws your repository as an architecture map you can browse in the cockpit.installed by default
- ecc293 skills, 68 agents and 94 commands for the agent to reach for.
- superpowers13 skills that make the agent plan, write tests first and debug methodically.
- google-skillsgoogle’s 149 skills for its own products, opened only when one matches.
- ponytailmakes the agent check whether code needs writing at all before it writes any.
- grafta code map the agent queries for exact file and line answers, before grepping.
- your own packdrop in a folder of your own skills and switch it on like any other.
token savers
switches on the claude code settler that spend fewer tokens on the same work. all off by default.
- cavemanshorter replies from the agent, so fewer output tokens.
- rtkshorter shell output before the agent reads it, so fewer input tokens.
- headroomsqueezes large tool output, such as json, before the model reads it.
- jev compactionwhen the context fills, drops stale tool calls instead of summarising the conversation.
loops
chores that run on a schedule. each is off until you switch it on and name the repositories it may touch.
- merge trainmerges green colony pull requests one at a time, and keeps the rest up to date.
- disk cleanupclears old build output before a full disk stops the mothership.
- dependencies & supply chainfinds vulnerable or yanked dependencies and opens the smallest fix.
- docs & readmenotices docs that drifted from the code and sends a colony to fix only the docs.
- typescript: remove anyreplaces the explicit any in your typescript with real types, a small batch at a time.
- map refreshkeeps the architecture map of a repository, or a whole org, current.
- your own loopany recurring chore, as a saved prompt on a schedule.
security
point bug hunters at your own repository, and screen what a colony publishes.
- red teama swarm of bug hunters raids your own repository and reports what they can reproduce.
- shannonan ai pentester for web apps and apis, run against your app inside a colony.
- strixanother security hunter; it installs, but no run drives it yet.
- prompt screeningchecks every pull request for hidden characters before it leaves your machine.
add-ons
notes, notifications, a stand-in to answer questions, logs for your own dashboards, and more.
- shared memorynotes every colony reads, per repository, per org and for everything.installed by default
- mem0 memorykeeps approved notes in your mem0 project, most relevant to the task first.
- notificationstells you when a colony needs an answer, stalls, fails or opens a pull request.
- judge modela model answers a colony’s questions when you are away, picking only from the options offered.
- burn downspends what is left of a weekly plan on bug hunts before it resets.
- observabilitysends logs, metrics and one trace per colony to your own dashboards.
- voice inputtalk to a colony instead of typing.installed by default
- watchdognudges colonies that stop making progress and flags the ones that need you.installed by default
code hosts
where the work comes from and where the pull request goes.
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what the badges mean
- built-in ships with colonizer and is on without you doing anything.
- optional ships with colonizer, off until you switch it on.
- tests only ships with colonizer, but is covered by tests only: it has not yet done real work in a colony.
- planned not usable yet.
keeping them current
every bundled skill pack is pinned by sha256. a daily job checks each one against its upstream and proposes the new pins, with the skills added, removed and changed; staging runs every check a real install does, so an update that fails them never becomes a proposal. it never merges: a person reads and merges.
checked against the harness at ccf738f (v0.2.7) on 2026-10-06. the harness is the source of truth: Colonizer-dev/harness.