Standup

Type a GitHub handle. See who is waiting on you.

Someone opened a pull request on your project nine days ago and you still have not looked, because looking means six tabs and three threads before you know whether it even needs you. So it sits there, and the person who wrote it decides you are not maintaining this any more. Standup does that reading for you and hands back three things to do, each with the evidence it saw and how long it will take.

Built with the Strands Agents SDK for the Agents for Humans Hackathon.

Real output

trekhleb, a stranger. Twelve public repositories, 52 seconds, nothing typed but the handle. Here in the CLI's own rendering, the model's words unedited:

Main pipelines across javascript-algorithms, yesbrainer, and trekhleb.github.io are green, with clean zero-open-item states on trekhleb/trekhleb, cali-vibe, and hello-docker.

1. Review fresh cryptography and documentation PRs  (javascript-algorithms)
   YaronKoresh is waiting.
   Evidence: YaronKoresh opened PR #2073 0 days ago; chenlichao opened PR #2188 1 day ago; lisagorewitdecker opened security PRs #2202 and #2205 within the last 6 days.
   Action:   Review and merge PR #2073 (SHA-256 implementation) and PR #2188 documentation fix.
   Estimate: 25 minutes

2. Review Siteefy tool submission PR #23  (promote-your-next-startup)
   Lupimi is waiting.
   Evidence: Lupimi opened PR #23 'Add Siteefy free tool submission' 4 days ago.
   Action:   Review PR #23 and merge if the proposed link fits repository criteria.
   Estimate: 10 minutes

3. Respond to web crawler resource proposal in issue #103  (trekhleb.github.io)
   AndyNian is waiting.
   Evidence: AndyNian opened issue #103 'Deep-dive resource proposal for the web crawler sketch' 14 days ago.
   Action:   Reply to issue #103 regarding the proposed web crawler resource link.
   Estimate: 10 minutes

Beyond tonight: Address older community pull requests in learn-python (PRs #113-#115) and triage container startup issue #1 in claude-pod.

What Standup looked at (read-only):
  2026-09-09T02:39:31Z  read 12 public repositories on GitHub
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_trekhleb
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_learn_python
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_jobs_radar_web_snapshot
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_hello_docker
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_trekhleb_github_io
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_nano_neuron
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_yesbrainer
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_machine_learning_octave
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_promote_your_next_startup
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_cali_vibe
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_javascript_algorithms
  2026-09-09T02:39:32Z  ran scout_claude_pod
  2026-09-09T02:40:01Z  ran triage

How it decides

The ordering is the product. Anything a person is waiting on beats anything that only costs you. Then anything that will be lost or painful later. Then the thread you were pulling when you stopped.

Bots are named and dropped: a Dependabot pull request is never someone waiting. A quiet account gets one item, not a padded three.

It never tells you off for leaving. People leave projects because life happens, so the brief opens with what is still standing.

Read-only, and it shows you

The agent has no GitHub write path: no tool that could write, and nothing in the code that calls one. Every read lands in an audit the brief carries with it, printed at the bottom of every run and on the page. Read-only is shown, not claimed.

The one thing that ever writes is the last step of the GitHub Action: your token, your repository, one issue.

Try it

standup.hyperdrift.io — type a handle, wait about a minute. No install, no login. The URL is shareable and the brief stays for an hour.

Install

CLI

pipx install standup-agent        # or: uv tool install standup-agent
standup trekhleb                  # a GitHub handle or org
standup ~/dev/my-project          # or a folder of repositories

Set GOOGLE_SA_KEY_B64 + VERTEX_PROJECT, or GEMINI_API_KEY, or leave both unset and Strands falls back to Amazon Bedrock with your AWS credentials (see .env.example and src/standup/model.py). GITHUB_TOKEN (or GH_TOKEN) is read from the environment, falling back to gh auth token.

MCP server — ask Claude or Cursor "what should I do first on my projects?" and the brief comes back in the tool you already have open. Claude Desktop, claude_desktop_config.json:

{"mcpServers": {"standup": {"command": "uvx", "args": ["--from", "standup-agent", "standup-mcp"],
  "env": {"GOOGLE_SA_KEY_B64": "…", "VERTEX_PROJECT": "…", "GITHUB_TOKEN": "…",
          "STANDUP_STATE": "/Users/you/.standup"}}}}

Cursor takes the same block in .cursor/mcp.json. One tool, standup(target). Listed in the MCP Registry as io.github.hyperdrift-io/standup. The token is any read-only one; without it the server falls back to gh auth token, which a GUI-launched app often cannot see.

GitHub Action — copy examples/standup.yml into .github/workflows/, add one model secret — a Gemini key, or the Vertex pair — and Monday morning brings an issue instead of a backlog.

Architecture

flowchart LR
    U["A GitHub handle<br/>or a folder"] --> S
    subgraph S["Source · read-only"]
      G["GitHub GraphQL<br/>one call per account"]
      L["git + gh<br/>local folder"]
    end
    S --> ST["RepoState × n"]
    subgraph GR["Strands Graph · scouts run in parallel"]
      SC1["Scout · repo 1"] --> T["Triage<br/>ordering rule → typed Brief"]
      SC2["Scout · repo 2"] --> T
      SCn["Scout · repo n"] --> T
    end
    ST --> SC1
    ST --> SC2
    ST --> SCn
    A["Audit hook<br/>everything looked at"] -.-> GR
    P["Previous brief<br/>one JSON file"] -.-> T
    T --> B["Brief<br/>1–3 items · evidence · minutes"]
    B --> CLI["CLI"]
    B --> MCP["MCP server<br/>Claude · Cursor"]
    B --> ACT["GitHub Action<br/>weekly issue"]
    B --> WEB["standup.hyperdrift.io"]

One GraphQL call per account. repositoryOwner(login:) reads a person and an organisation the same way, and costs 1 point of the 5,000 GitHub gives you per hour (measured 2026-09-09 on trekhleb: cost 1). Repositories pushed within the last year, most recent first, twelve at most; forks and archives skipped.
A Strands Graph. One scout agent per repository, all of them in flight at once, each returning a typed RepoRead — what moved, who is waiting, what will hurt, the dropped thread. One triage agent reads all of it, applies the ordering rule, and returns a Brief through structured_output. That single Pydantic shape feeds the CLI text, the MCP result, the Action's issue body and the page.
A hook on every graph node, plus one line when the source reads GitHub, appends each read to the audit that ships with the brief.
One JSON file per handle holds the last brief, so the next run can open with what changed since. No accounts, no database.
The model is Vertex Gemini by default, a Gemini API key or Amazon Bedrock otherwise.

What it cannot see

Private repositories — invisible to it, by design. Anything quiet for more than a year, or past the twelve most recently pushed. Anything that happened off GitHub: the Slack thread, the email, the person who gave up and never opened the issue. When a scout or the API falls short, the brief says so in its own words rather than quietly shrinking.

Licence

MIT. Built by Hyperdrift.

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