Show HN: Deputies, an open source background agent
Deputies is an open-source background agent designed for delegated engineering work. It operates on existing infrastructure, allowing users to manage tasks through a web UI, Slack, or GitHub. The system emphasizes visibility and control while enabling teams to run and review agent work efficiently.
- ▪Deputies is powered by Flue and integrates with Node, Postgres, and React.
- ▪Users can assign work and manage tasks through various platforms, including web UI and Slack.
- ▪The system allows for sandboxed environments tailored to specific development needs.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 9 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Deputies |
| Canonical URL | https://deputies.dev/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 01:34:52 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T02:01:36.543Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T02:01:36.543Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | u2wLeRW6uSkk · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
D Deputies GitHub Engineering agents for delegated work. Deputies is a Flue-powered background-agent control plane that runs on your existing infrastructure: a Node API, Postgres database, and static React frontend. Run agents in sandboxes tailored to your dev environment, with the right repositories, tools, services, and context sources attached. View on GitHub 1 Assign work Send a prompt from the web UI, Slack, GitHub, or a webhook. 2 Agent runs Deputies manages the sandbox, work queue, logs, services, and artifacts. 3 Review output Inspect the transcript, open tools, download artifacts, and follow up. 4 Ship or iterate Queue a follow-up, publish a pull request, or merge the finished work. Demo See what a Deputies session looks like.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Deputies.
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