Cole Murray hands off open-source OpenInspect agent project to new maintainers

Cole Murray says he will step away from OpenInspect, an open-source background agent system, on November 1, 2026.

He says the MIT-licensed project is moving to the open-inspect GitHub organization, where a handful of maintainers will take over. Murray says the license is unchanged and that existing users need not change anything.

Murray reports the project began with one commit nine months earlier and has 3,400 GitHub stars and 1,900 merged PRs from more than 50 contributors. He says companies with 5 to 500+ engineers use it in production. He also describes challenges with differing harness designs and sandbox providers.