# kingshand (kingshand.emgeelabs.in)

> A Windows tool that runs several Claude Code sessions at once: you talk to one session, it dispatches each worker into its own git worktree and brings back what needs deciding.

kingshand runs on Windows with PowerShell 7 and needs Claude Code, Git for Windows,
lavish-axi, tasks-axi and herdr. It is MIT licensed and installed from a clone of its
own repository - there is no hosted service, no account and no remote one-line
installer, because install.ps1 imports modules from the bin\ directory beside it and
only runs from inside a clone.

Every page on this subdomain is static HTML and needs no JavaScript to read.

## Install

Run these three commands, then type "set it up" (or "setup", or "/setup") in the Claude Code session that opens:

    git clone https://github.com/emgee-labs/kingshand
    cd kingshand
    claude

## Install without the session

The manual equivalent, run from inside the clone in PowerShell 7:

    .\install.ps1 -InstallMissing

## Pages

- [Overview](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/): What kingshand is, what it gives you, and what it is not.
- [Install](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/install): Requirements, the install commands, and what is written outside the repository.
- [Design decisions](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/docs): How workers are run and controlled, mirrored from the repository.
- [Worker control plane: stay on claude --bg](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/docs/2026-08-28-worker-control-plane-decision): This record's own revisit trigger fired. It is kept because the reasoning is still the reason kingshand refused a heavier control plane for as long as it did, and because the trade table below is what the replacement...
- [Worker control plane: herdr](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/docs/2026-08-29-herdr-worker-control-plane): Kingshand spawns and controls workers through herdr. Each worker is an ordinary interactive Claude Code session running in a herdr pane, in a git worktree kingshand creates itself. claude --bg --worktree is gone, and...

## Also on this subdomain

- [llms-full.txt](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/llms-full.txt): Every page above inlined as plain text.
- [robots.txt](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/robots.txt): All crawlers allowed.
- [sitemap.xml](https://kingshand.emgeelabs.in/sitemap.xml): Every page on this subdomain.

## Source

- [emgee-labs/kingshand](https://github.com/emgee-labs/kingshand): The tool itself: scripts, skills, tests, MIT licence.
- [Docs in the repository](https://github.com/emgee-labs/kingshand/tree/main/docs): What the /docs pages here are mirrored from.
- [emgee labs](https://emgeelabs.in/): The other tools published by emgee labs.