Luther Monson

Go by way of PHP · Containers · VMs · Windows · Kubernetes

shipmates: Persona-Based AI Coding Crews That Remember

shipmates is a Go CLI and daemon that runs crews of AI coding agents across machines. It adds per-project memory, a shared task graph, voice control and a real permission model.

August 21, 2026

7-Minute Read

shipmates hierarchy: Admiral, Fleet Command, ships, captains and mates

Since June most of my evenings have gone into shipmates, a Go CLI and daemon for running crews of AI coding agents. I tagged v0.5.0 on August 17th. That was two months and about 240 commits after the first architecture doc. So it’s a good time to write down what it is and why it exists.