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Persistent file-based planning for AI coding agents and long-running tasks. Crash-proof markdown plans, session recovery after /clear and compaction, per-turn re-injection against context rot, deterministic completion gate. Manus-style. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro, OpenCode and 60+ agents via the Agent Skills standard.
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Symphony turns project work into isolated, autonomous implementation runs, allowing teams to manage work instead of supervising coding agents.
Visit ↗| Fact | planning-with-files | symphony |
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| GitHub stars | 25.9K | 26.4K |
| Forks | 2.2K | 2.7K |
| Open issues | 7 | 9 |
| Primary language | Python | Elixir |
| License | MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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