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  "schema_version": "2.0",
  "slug": "squadcue",
  "name": "SquadCue",
  "agent_url": "https://squadcue.com",
  "repo_url": null,
  "category": "Workflow & Automation",
  "run_id": "run-22cf84e4e27007f0-squadcue-com",
  "run_at": "2026-08-18T20:30:58.183Z",
  "editor": "Hlido Editor",
  "editorial_method": "public-surface-tier-2+editorial-narrative-v2",
  "methodology_version": "2026.05",
  "methodology_url": "/methodology/public-surface-tier-1/",
  "score": 73,
  "tier": "STEADY",
  "laddoo_score": 73,
  "confidence": "low-medium",
  "hlido_opinion": {
    "headline": "A local cockpit that turns your Claude Code sessions into named 'employees' you supervise through an approval inbox — early and single-user, but unusually honest about exactly what it is and isn't.",
    "body": "SquadCue (MIT, v0.1.2) is a laptop-scale control plane for AI CLI sessions. Recent Claude Code sessions on your machine become named contacts you chat with, resume across restarts, and supervise from your phone; a visual Drawflow canvas orchestrates repeatable pipelines on top. Its centrepiece is an approval inbox: with tools allowed, a PreToolUse hook routes risky actions (shell, file writes, network fetches) into a web + Telegram queue where the first response wins and a timeout means deny. What earns Hlido's respect is the honesty. The project states plainly and repeatedly that the inbox is a supervision workflow for a trusted local setup, not a security boundary, points to a SECURITY.md that spells out what it cannot stop, and documents its opt-outs, its loopback-only enforcement, and a production 'learned the hard way' caveat that background jobs spawned in a chat turn may die with it. That candour is rare and valuable. The trade-off is maturity and reach: it is explicitly single-user by design, Windows is the daily-driver platform (canvas shell nodes run via PowerShell; session relaunch is Windows-only today), Claude Code is the only first-class engine (Codex is a red-team add-on, other CLIs a roadmap adapter), and the whole thing was extracted in July 2026 from one person's tooling. The 'immortal employees' durable-memory model is roadmap, not shipped. Reviewed from the project surface only; Hlido did not run the cockpit.",
    "voice": "Hlido Editor",
    "as_of": "2026-08-19",
    "editor_signature_pending": true
  },
  "tier_rationale": "STEADY (73) for an MIT-licensed, genuinely useful local cockpit (session-as-employee, canvas pipelines, a real human-in-the-loop approval inbox) whose standout is exceptional honesty about its own limits and non-security-boundary status — held at low-medium confidence by early-stage maturity (v0.1.2, single-user by design, Windows-primary, Claude-Code-first) and a surface-only review. The candour raises trust; the maturity caps the score.",
  "what_it_does_well": [
    "Turns real Claude Code sessions into named, resumable 'employees' you chat with and supervise — a concrete, useful local abstraction",
    "A real human-in-the-loop approval inbox (web + Telegram, first-response-wins, timeout = deny) with recorded, auditable decisions",
    "Exceptionally honest self-documentation: it states the inbox is not a security boundary, links a SECURITY.md of what it cannot stop, and flags hard-won production caveats",
    "Sensible local security posture — loopback-only enforced at startup, CSRF/DNS-rebind guards, path containment, SSRF guard on fetch, no shell template interpolation",
    "Zero-infra install (pip install squadcue; plain JSON/JSONL + SQLite state you can grep); MIT-licensed"
  ],
  "what_it_fails_at": [
    "Early stage — v0.1.2, extracted from one person's tooling; durable cross-session 'immortal employee' memory is roadmap, not shipped",
    "Single-user by design (loopback only; no auth/RBAC until a second user exists)",
    "Windows is the daily-driver platform — canvas shell nodes run via PowerShell and session relaunch is Windows-only today; Linux/macOS need adaptation",
    "Claude Code is the only first-class engine; Codex is a red-team add-on and other CLIs are a roadmap adapter layer",
    "Surface-only review — Hlido did not run the cockpit, so behaviour is unverified"
  ],
  "best_for": [
    "Solo operators running Claude Code (and optionally Codex) all day who want a local cockpit with named sessions and phone-based supervision",
    "Users who want a real approval gate over risky agent actions and value plain, greppable local state",
    "Windows-primary developers comfortable with an early, honestly-scoped open-source tool"
  ],
  "not_recommended_for": [
    "Teams needing multi-user access, auth or RBAC",
    "Anyone expecting the approval inbox to be a security sandbox — it is explicitly not",
    "Linux/macOS users wanting full parity today, or users of CLIs other than Claude Code/Codex"
  ],
  "red_flags": [
    "By the project's own statement, the approval inbox is a supervision workflow, not a security boundary — approving a shell command approves the whole program it runs; do not treat it as a sandbox"
  ],
  "compared_to": [],
  "evidence_urls": [
    {
      "claim": "Turns real Claude Code sessions into named, resumable 'employees' you chat with and supervise — a concrete, useful local abstraction",
      "source": "https://squadcue.com",
      "tested_at": "2026-08-19",
      "verified": true
    },
    {
      "claim": "A real human-in-the-loop approval inbox (web + Telegram, first-response-wins, timeout = deny) with recorded, auditable decisions",
      "source": "https://squadcue.com",
      "tested_at": "2026-08-19",
      "verified": true
    },
    {
      "claim": "Exceptionally honest self-documentation: it states the inbox is not a security boundary, links a SECURITY.md of what it cannot stop, and flags hard-won production caveats",
      "source": "https://squadcue.com",
      "tested_at": "2026-08-19",
      "verified": true
    },
    {
      "claim": "Sensible local security posture — loopback-only enforced at startup, CSRF/DNS-rebind guards, path containment, SSRF guard on fetch, no shell template interpolation",
      "source": "https://squadcue.com",
      "tested_at": "2026-08-19",
      "verified": true
    },
    {
      "claim": "Hands-on runtime behaviour (executing the tool / a live task)",
      "source": "https://squadcue.com (surface-only review; not hands-on tested)",
      "tested_at": "2026-08-19",
      "verified": false
    }
  ],
  "agent_relevance": {
    "has_api": true,
    "has_cli": true,
    "has_mcp": false,
    "has_webhook": false,
    "has_sdk": false,
    "behavioral_testable": true,
    "agent_integration_path": "Install via pip and run locally (FastAPI server + single-file cockpit); it discovers Claude Code sessions as 'employees', routes risky tool calls through an approval inbox (web + Telegram), and orchestrates pipelines on a canvas. Control plane and state stay on your machine.",
    "agent_friendly_score": 7
  },
  "summary": "A local cockpit that turns your Claude Code sessions into named 'employees' you supervise through an approval inbox — early and single-user, but unusually honest about exactly what it is and isn't.",
  "_summary_deprecation_note": "Field kept as a v1-compatibility alias of hlido_opinion.headline. New consumers should read hlido_opinion.{headline,body,voice,as_of}.",
  "staleness_after": "2026-11-19",
  "review_age_days_at_publish": 0,
  "next_review_due_at": "2026-11-19",
  "attestation_url": "/data/attestations/squadcue.json",
  "signature_pending": true,
  "source": "hlido-editor-v2",
  "marking_signal": {
    "marking_statement": false,
    "detection_tool": false,
    "cop_signatory": null,
    "evidence_url": null,
    "checked_at": "2026-08-19",
    "source": "r-publish-editorial-enrich",
    "not_applicable": true,
    "note": "A local orchestration/supervision cockpit for coding agents, not a generator of synthetic media or deceptive content — Article-50(4) marking obligations do not apply."
  },
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      "page_.png",
      "page__why-squadcue.png",
      "page__features.png"
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  },
  "pricing_facts": {
    "schema": "pricing-facts/1",
    "model": [
      "open-source"
    ],
    "free_tier": true,
    "last_verified": "2026-08-18",
    "basis": "Derived from Hlido-held evidence only (engine checklist + editorial text); quotes are verbatim from the scorecard; not vendor-supplied; re-derived daily. Verify current prices on the vendor's pricing page.",
    "derived_at": "2026-08-21"
  }
}