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by General Action, Inc. Agent harness in Agent harnesses

General Action, Inc. · emdash.sh · who's behind it

Emdash is an open-source desktop app that runs coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Amp in parallel, each in its own Git worktree, locally or on remote machines over SSH, with issue intake and pull requests.

Best for Developers who want parallel agents in worktrees, fed from their issue tracker, locally or over SSH.

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Assessment. A mature open-source app for parallel coding agents in Git worktrees, with issue intake from a dozen trackers and remote machines over SSH. Telemetry is on unless you turn it off, and no test workflow was found in the repository.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it
Auth
None
Pricing
Free · Free · OSS
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No
Licence
Apache-2.0
Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases
llms.txt
not found
Last release
From our research 1 fact checked against the vendor's pages
Surface graded
The open-source app, read from a clone of github.com/generalaction/emdash on 7 November 2026. Nothing installed

Facts verified 7 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

  • Each task in its own Git worktree and branch
  • Issues from Linear, GitHub, Jira, GitLab, Asana and more go straight to an agent
  • Works on remote machines over SSH
  • Apache 2.0, version 1.2, with macOS, Windows and Linux builds

Weaknesses

  • Telemetry on unless turned off in Settings or with TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false
  • No test workflow found, only consistency and release workflows
  • No security policy file

Before you call it notes for agents

  1. Launch with TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false if you don't want telemetry
  2. Use the SSH mode to keep agents on a remote machine

Who's behind it provenance 40/100

  • Legal entity namedGeneral Action, Inc.20/20
  • Domain ageemdash.sh, no registry record we could read0/15
  • Endpoint on the vendor's domainno hosted endpointn/a
  • Terms of servicenothing hosted, so the Apache-2.0 licence stands in10/10
  • Privacy policynothing hosted, not scoredn/a
  • Status pagenot found0/10
  • Changelognot found0/10
  • security.txtnot found0/10
  • People namednot researched yetn/a
  • Support routenot researched yetn/a

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service none to read

TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there are no terms of service to read. The Apache-2.0 licence stands in and the check scores in full.

Privacy policy none to read

TL;DR Nothing is hosted by the vendor, so there is no privacy policy to read and the check isn't scored.

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

Not looked up: RDAP isn't requested under the 1 November 2026 rules.

The licence names General Action, Inc.. The repository is github.com/generalaction/emdash.

Checked 2026-11-07 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 16:01 UTC

  • security.txt none · 1 hour ago

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/emdash.json

Notable

  • Repository history from October 2025, with thousands of commits and v1.2.11 on 6 November 2026 source

Reviews by the Anchor panel

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 7 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence low. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

CategoryWeight this runScorePoints
Reliabilitychecked 7 November 2026 16%20 11.0
Local software. Homebrew cask and installers for macOS, Windows and Linux (20). A code-consistency check and release workflows; no test workflow found (10). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Stable tags to v1.2.11, release notes on GitHub (10). Version 1.2.11 (15). 20 + 10 + 0 + 10 + 15 = 55.
Performancenot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 8.9
Harness reading. Docs site and a workspace server package (55).
Agent ergonomicschecked 7 November 2026 13%16.2 8.9
Harness reading. Issue intake from Linear, GitHub, Jira and others, diff review, pull requests and CI checks in one place, local or over SSH (55).
Security & authchecked 7 November 2026 14%17.5 6.7
Harness reading. Telemetry is described as optional and disabled in Settings or with TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false, which reads as on by default (15 of 30). Worktree per task and remote machines over SSH (10 of 20). No prompt-injection guidance (5). No audit log (5). No security policy file found (3). 15 + 10 + 5 + 5 + 3 = 38.
Payments & pricingchecked 7 November 2026 10%12.5 7.5
Free self-hosted software with nothing to buy, so 0 for a protocol and 20 each for public pricing, a free tier and onboarding with no sign-up, 60.
Task successnot scored in this run 10%pending pending n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 6.1
v1.2.11 on 6 November 2026 (30). v1.2.9, v1.2.10 and v1.2.11 within two weeks (20). GitHub issues and pull requests weren't read (GitHub's pages refuse these sessions), so that line is scored absent (0). Current installers and Homebrew cask (15). Release workflows, no test CI (5). 30 + 20 + 0 + 15 + 5 = 70.
Transparency & trusteditorial 68, provenance 40checked 7 November 2026 7%8.8 4.7
Apache 2.0 (30). A telemetry page on the docs site (not read) (18 of 30). No deprecation policy (5). Disclosed with an opt-out (15 of 20). 30 + 18 + 5 + 15 = 68.
Negative events≤15None recorded0
Total53.9 · D

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

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  1. Graded 53.9 D methodology v0.7

Fix list 12 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Emdash. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

  • unchecked: the telemetry docs page, issues and whether CI covers tests

Sources 2

  1. repository README, licence, workflows, tags and docs, shallow clone github.com · seen 2026-11-07
  2. lead, the Conductor alternatives list the founder pasted on 7 November 2026, and awesome-agent-orchestrators github.com · seen 2026-11-07

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Free Free · OSS Free and open source. You pay for the coding agents it runs, through your own subscriptions or API keys (checked 2026-11-07).

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Install

brew install --cask emdash

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