# team.management

> A more capable model isn't a more trustworthy one — it's a more convincing liar. team.management is an open-source protocol engine for Claude Code that puts every process on rails your AI doesn't leave — not just code — enforced as it happens, provable after.

## Overview

- [team.management — The operating system for human + agent teams.](https://team.management/index.md): A more capable model isn't a more trustworthy one — it's a more convincing liar. team.management is an open-source protocol engine for Claude Code that puts every process on rails your AI doesn't leave — not just code — enforced as it happens, provable after.
- [Docs](https://team.management/docs.md): Install, the DAIC loop, TDD discipline, the spec-review gate, customization, the MCP reference, and AI providers.
- [Protocols](https://team.management/protocols.md): One engine, six shipped protocols. Each drives a multi-step workflow with DAIC modes, agents, and gates managed automatically.
- [Compare](https://team.management/compare.md): team.management vs GitHub Spec Kit, Superpowers, gstack, Claude Task Master, BMAD Method, Beads, OpenSpec, cc-sessions, autoresearch — and the AI coding subscriptions side by side, with a date on every number.

## Getting started

- [Install in five minutes](https://team.management/docs/install.md): A native Claude Code plugin: add the marketplace, install, run init — your team follows via one committed file.
- [DAIC — the loop on rails](https://team.management/docs/daic.md): Discuss → Align → Implement → Document → Commit, enforced by hooks that can’t be bypassed.
- [Context preservation & auto-compact](https://team.management/docs/context-preservation.md): A PreCompact hook checkpoints the session before compaction; on restart, task, branch, protocol step, and DAIC mode all reload.

## Discipline

- [Test-driven, when it applies](https://team.management/docs/tdd.md): Write the test, watch it fail, then implement. The applicability matrix, honestly drawn.
- [The spec-compliance gate](https://team.management/docs/spec-review.md): A SPEC_REVIEW: PASSED sentinel the agent can’t advance past until the diff matches the spec.
- [Your protocols, your rules](https://team.management/docs/customization.md): Fork any protocol into custom/ — it overrides the system copy and is never touched on upgrade.
- [LLM Wiki — a compounding knowledge base](https://team.management/docs/llm-wiki.md): Claude writes and maintains a structured, interlinked wiki from your raw sources — knowledge compounds instead of being re-derived on every query.

## Reference

- [MCP tools reference](https://team.management/docs/mcp.md): 42 tools across 8 modules — the primary tool surface, with guaranteed discoverability.
- [Engine functions reference](https://team.management/docs/functions.md): The 45 pre_funcs / post_funcs you wire into protocol steps — branch setup, gates, issue sync, archiving, the optimize loop — grouped by what they do.
- [Issue tracking — four providers, one interface](https://team.management/docs/issue-tracking.md): GitLab, Jira, GitHub, Gitea — import issues as tasks, sync status bidirectionally, ship MRs and PRs from the completion step.
- [AI providers — Codex & Antigravity](https://team.management/docs/ai-providers.md): Codex and Antigravity join Claude as parallel collaborators across six workflow phases.

## Protocols

- [task](https://team.management/protocols/task.md): The standard implementation lifecycle.
- [brainstorm](https://team.management/protocols/brainstorm.md): Parallel-specialist ideation → planned tasks. No code.
- [research](https://team.management/protocols/research.md): Spikes, PoCs, evaluations. No branch, no code.
- [refactoring](https://team.management/protocols/refactoring.md): Test-baseline-gated restructuring.
- [optimize](https://team.management/protocols/optimize.md): Metric-driven optimization, interactive batched.
- [optimize-unattended](https://team.management/protocols/optimize-unattended.md): Autonomous twin of optimize. For overnight runs.

## Comparisons

- [team.management vs GitHub Spec Kit](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-github-spec-kit.md): GitHub Spec Kit vs team.management: spec-driven documents vs runtime process enforcement for Claude Code — what each one actually stops, and why the two compose well together.
- [team.management vs Superpowers](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-superpowers.md): Superpowers vs team.management: both promise engineering discipline for Claude Code. Superpowers works through structured instructions; team.management gates tool calls in the runtime.
- [team.management vs gstack](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-gstack.md): gstack vs team.management: Garry Tan’s 23 role-skills turn Claude Code into a virtual team; team.management makes the team’s process enforceable. Which failure mode is yours?
- [team.management vs Claude Task Master](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-claude-task-master.md): Claude Task Master vs team.management for Claude Code task management: PRD-to-task-graph decomposition vs an enforced task lifecycle with DAIC gates, branches, and review.
- [team.management vs BMAD Method](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-bmad-method.md): BMAD Method vs team.management: 12+ agent personas and PRD ceremony vs an enforced protocol lifecycle inside Claude Code. Which discipline model fits your work?
- [team.management vs Beads](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-beads.md): Beads vs team.management: Steve Yegge’s git-backed issue graph gives agents memory across sessions; team.management enforces the process within them. Use both.
- [team.management vs OpenSpec](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-openspec.md): OpenSpec vs team.management: lightweight spec-driven workflow vs enforced protocol lifecycle for Claude Code. Same instinct — discipline without ceremony — different layer.
- [team.management vs cc-sessions](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-cc-sessions.md): cc-sessions vs team.management: the original DAIC hooks harness is dormant since October 2025. team.management carries the same DNA forward as a maintained protocol engine.
- [team.management vs autoresearch](https://team.management/compare/team-management-vs-autoresearch.md): autoresearch by Andrej Karpathy vs team.management’s optimize protocols: autonomous overnight experimentation — and what changes when the loop runs on an enforced, engine-measured lifecycle instead of Markdown instructions.
- [Claude Code vs Codex (July 2026)](https://team.management/compare/claude-code-vs-codex.md): Claude Code vs OpenAI Codex in July 2026: subscription tiers, session and weekly limits, credit systems, and API fallbacks compared with primary sources — plus the case for running both on one process.
- [Antigravity vs Claude Code (July 2026)](https://team.management/compare/antigravity-vs-claude-code.md): Google Antigravity vs Claude Code in July 2026: Google AI subscription tiers and credit bundles vs Claude plans and session limits — sourced, dated, including the quota history.
- [AI coding subscriptions compared (July 2026)](https://team.management/compare/ai-coding-subscriptions.md): Every major AI coding subscription in one table, July 2026: Claude, ChatGPT/Codex, Google AI/Antigravity, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf — prices, credit models, limits, and run-out behavior, with primary sources.