For teams adopting agents
Agents propose. People decide. The record proves it.
Every agent run starts from a brief a person approved, executes on your runners, and reaches review with its checks measured. Autonomy is earned over a clean window and lost on one failure.
What you tell us
The agents arrived before the process did.
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“Agents open pull requests nobody asked for.”
Every engineer runs an agent differently. The work that appears was never shaped, never approved, and lands in review anyway.
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“We can't say what the agent did.”
A merge request shows the diff. It does not show the brief, the context the agent was given, or whether its tests really ran.
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“Every vendor wants us to move in.”
The tracker, the code host and the CI system each sell an agent platform. Each works best if more of your lifecycle moves into it.
How Continuumship answers
Bounded work, on your machines, under your rules.
Briefs a person approves
A plan is shaped and approved before an agent builds it. The approver is the actor of every run the plan starts, and the brief says what the change touches.
- The same context a person sees
- Every document it was given, recorded by digest
Runs on your runners
Agents work in an isolated worktree on your machines, through the adapter or MCP client your engineers already use. Source, diffs and transcripts stay there.
- Local, CI and hosted venues
- Checks measured on the runner, not reported
Routing, budgets and earned autonomy
Work goes to the model your rules allow. A budget stops the run that would break it. Standing approvals cover named work only while the record stays clean.
- One failure steps autonomy down
- Production writes always need a decision
How to start
Start in shadow, with agents read-only.
For thirty days on one Area, agent suggestions are compared with what your people did next. Then you decide which agents may prepare changes.
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Week 0 · Connect
Connect the tracker, the code host, your pipelines and one observability source with read-only scopes. Pair a runner.
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Week 1 · History and discovery
History is read back. The process the team really follows is discovered, and the repeated work an agent could take on is counted.
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Week 2 · Confirm and shadow
The team confirms its flow and chooses the read-only agent templates to try. Guardrails go into shadow.
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Weeks 3–4 · Shadow on live work
Suggestions run in shadow and are compared with what people did. We read the report together, and you decide.
Questions teams ask about agents
Which agents work with it?
Can an agent approve its own work?
What will it cost in model spend?
Let agents in, one Area at a time.
Start with a thirty-day shadow pilot: agents read-only, suggestions compared with what your people did, the report read together.