Verve

An AI agent orchestrator that dispatches Claude Code agents to work on tasks in isolated Docker containers. User source code never leaves their network.

How It Works

Your Cloud                              User Environment
┌───────────────────────────┐          ┌───────────────────────────┐
│ Postgres ◄─► API Server   │◄─ HTTPS ─│ Worker                    │
│              ◄─► Web UI   │          │   └─► Agent containers    │
└───────────────────────────┘          └───────────────────────────┘

1. You create a task in the web UI with a description and target repository
2. A worker (running in the user's environment) long-polls and claims the task
3. The worker spawns an isolated Docker container running Claude Code
4. The agent makes code changes, commits, and opens a pull request
5. Logs stream back in real-time and PR status is monitored automatically
6. If CI fails, the task is automatically retried with failure context

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshjon/verve/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Or install a specific version:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshjon/verve/main/scripts/install.sh | sh -s 0.1.0

By default this installs to ~/.local/bin/verve. Set INSTALL_DIR to override:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joshjon/verve/main/scripts/install.sh | INSTALL_DIR=/usr/local/bin sh

Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Anthropic API Key (or Claude Code OAuth token)

1. Build the agent image and start Verve

make build-agent  # Build the agent Docker image
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-... verve

This starts the API server and worker together, with the UI at http://localhost:7400.

2. Add a repository and create a task

Open the dashboard, connect a GitHub repo, and create your first task.

Docker Compose (distributed mode)

For production deployments with PostgreSQL:

cp .env.example .env   # Fill in your keys
make up                # Start PostgreSQL, API server, and worker

Useful commands

make logs    # Tail container logs
make down    # Stop everything

Custom Agent Images

The base agent image includes Node.js and common tools. If your project needs additional dependencies (Go, Python, Rust, etc.), create a custom Dockerfile:

FROM ghcr.io/joshjon/verve:base

USER root
COPY --from=golang:1.25-alpine /usr/local/go /usr/local/go
ENV PATH="/usr/local/go/bin:${PATH}"
USER agent

See agent/examples/ for more examples.

Tech Stack

• Go — API server and worker
• SvelteKit — Web UI
• PostgreSQL / SQLite — Database (Postgres for production, SQLite in-memory for dev)
• Docker — Agent container isolation
• Claude Code — AI coding agent