Every Repo. One Standard.
One portfolio agent oversees every repo you own — same lifecycle, same autonomy policy, same chain of custody, everywhere.
What never varies
One Standard, Every Repo
Add a repo to the fleet and it inherits the same rules — not a fresh negotiation each time.
One Lifecycle, Every Repo
The same ten skills — product, solution, design, spec, backlog, build, review, test, deploy, write — run in every repo, in the same order.
One Autonomy Policy
The same size-based admission threshold and the same human-owned floors — security, production, spend, the kill switch — apply everywhere, not repo by repo.
One Merge Separation
Builders never merge, in any repo. A different-vendor reviewer checks the work; the resident agent merges only what passes, current-head and green.
One Knowledge Practice
Every repo carries its own committed brain/ corpus. Agents search it before deciding, and write back what they learned — durable, not repo-siloed folklore.
One Record
Issue, branch, PR, review, merge — the same chain of custody in GitHub, in every repo, so nothing durable depends on which repo you’re looking at.
One Review Standard
Cross-vendor by contract: the reviewer never shares the builder’s blind spots — a different vendor, one independent conversation, the conclusion on the PR. In every repo.
How escalation works
The Ladder Never Skips a Tier
Every agent owns the problems it finds and pursues them until a real responsibility boundary or external blocker is reached — climbing one rung at a time, never jumping the queue.
Builder
Tier 1Implements one issue at a time with TDD, in an isolated worktree. Owns the code and the PR — never the merge.
Denied GitHub merge commands by native policy.
Resident Repo Agent
Tier 2Owns one repo’s backlog, just-in-time revalidation, and routine merge and closure — inside the effective autonomy threshold.
Escalates cross-repo sequencing and direction changes upward.
Portfolio Agent
Tier 3Sequences work and resolves conflicts across every repo you own — inside the direction you’ve already approved.
Escalates direction changes to you; never decides them alone.
Human
Tier 4Owns direction, cross-component architecture, security, production, material spend, and the kill switch — permanently, at every size.
One Agent Watches the Whole Fleet
The portfolio agent sequences work and resolves conflicts across every repo, inside the direction you've already approved — and escalates direction changes to you, never decides them alone. See the runtime it stands on.
Ready to Run Your Whole Fleet?
One standard. Every repo. You stay in charge.