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Foremerge

Catch intent conflicts between coding agents before they become code conflicts.

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What is Foremerge?

Foremerge is an open-source coordination protocol for coding agents, built above Git. Agents keep isolated worktrees while sharing their intent, claims, dependencies, provisional changes, decisions and validation, so each agent sees what the others are about to change before their work collides. It works with Claude Code, Codex and Cursor through a CLI, JSON API and MCP server.

Pros

  • Spots agents undoing each other's work before merge
  • One-line setup from your coding agent
  • Apache-2.0 licensed and local-first

Cons

  • Pre-1.0, so formats may still change
  • Works on one machine only; no cross-machine coordination yet

Who should use Foremerge

Developers running several coding agents on the same project at once.

Who may not need it

People using a single agent at a time.

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Free alternatives to Foremerge

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MARM Memory

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preloop

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