I Added ACP to My Mastra Agent So It Can Work in Repos
ACP is the layer that lets my Mastra agent hand real repo work to Claude Code instead of stopping at advice.
I walk through adding ACP to Emma so she can propose work in Slack, wait for approval, delegate inside an isolated worktree, and open a PR. You’ll see where ACP fits in Mastra, why it matters for repo-native agents, and the permission boundary I use to keep the loop safe.
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