What is this?
Grok Ship is an agent distro for Grok Bot that turns it into a small software factory: it files, delegates, and ships work via per-project crewmates that drive Cursor cloud agents, with adversarial review before any pull request.
Grok Ship is an agent distro for Grok Bot that turns it into a small software factory: it files, delegates, and ships work via per-project crewmates that drive Cursor cloud agents, with adversarial review before any pull request.Is this something I install on my own machine or does it run elsewhere?It runs on the shared Grok Bot computer, not your machine - bots never execute locally. Actual project work runs on ephemeral Cursor cloud agents, and after setup you only talk to one coordinating agent called Firstmate.
It runs on the shared Grok Bot computer, not your machine - bots never execute locally. Actual project work runs on ephemeral Cursor cloud agents, and after setup you only talk to one coordinating agent called Firstmate.How do I get the factory running?Tell any Grok Bot to set it up; that configures the factory on the shared computer and hands you over to Firstmate, the only agent you interact with from then on.
Tell any Grok Bot to set it up; that configures the factory on the shared computer and hands you over to Firstmate, the only agent you interact with from then on.What do I need before using it - just a Grok Bot?You need a Grok Bot and access to Cursor cloud agents, which the per-project crewmates drive to actually do the work; it also needs a connected forge repository.
You need a Grok Bot and access to Cursor cloud agents, which the per-project crewmates drive to actually do the work; it also needs a connected forge repository.Is this project still maintained?No - the repo carries a warning that it has been superseded by the Firstmate/Grok Bot template, so this is effectively a deprecated predecessor rather than the current recommended setup.
No - the repo carries a warning that it has been superseded by the Firstmate/Grok Bot template, so this is effectively a deprecated predecessor rather than the current recommended setup.What does scout vs ship mean?Scout work is investigation, diagnosis, planning, or audit and always produces a report, never a PR; ship work is authorized change that can result in a pull request. Promoting a scout task to ship flips the same task row instead of creating a duplicate.
Scout work is investigation, diagnosis, planning, or audit and always produces a report, never a PR; ship work is authorized change that can result in a pull request. Promoting a scout task to ship flips the same task row instead of creating a duplicate.Who is Firstmate?Firstmate is the single coordinating agent you talk to in the factory after setup; it files and routes work to the right per-project crewmate.
Firstmate is the single coordinating agent you talk to in the factory after setup; it files and routes work to the right per-project crewmate.Which code hosting platforms does it work with?It is forge-agnostic and detects GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Cursor Origin rather than assuming GitHub.
It is forge-agnostic and detects GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Cursor Origin rather than assuming GitHub.What are similar projects?open-swe, orca, oh-my-subagents, eve-software-factory-template, claude-code-action, foreman, moyai, no-mistakes
open-swe, orca, oh-my-subagents, eve-software-factory-template, claude-code-action, foreman, moyai, no-mistakesWhich topics is it in?pull-request, grok, code-review, github, workflow-automation, orchestration, agent-orchestration, cursor, sqlite, deprecated, multi-agent, agents
pull-request, grok, code-review, github, workflow-automation, orchestration, agent-orchestration, cursor, sqlite, deprecated, multi-agent, agents