Guides
How to run the factory.
The directory tells you what exists. These pages tell you how to assemble it. Equal weight, on purpose.
- Assembling a self-hosted stack
How to pick an open execution harness, a sandbox you can inspect, and gates you own — without pretending one vendor is the factory.
- Choosing an execution harness
How to pick the agent that writes the diff — IDE, CLI, or cloud worker — without a bake-off that measures the wrong thing.
- Designing the intent layer
How work enters a factory — specs, issues, and pass conditions — so agents have something to close against.
- Verification and quality gates
How to decide a diff is software — tests, review, evals, and merge policy — without trusting a green check the agent painted.
- What a software factory is
The agent-native definition, the older DevSecOps meaning, and the loop that actually has to close.
- Sandboxing and isolation
Why the agent needs its own computer, what isolation actually means, and which shortcuts turn a factory into a laptop with extra steps.
- Measuring factory output
What to count when agents write the diffs — and which dashboards are just token spend with a nicer chart.
- How to read a listing
What the fields mean, why verifiedAt is load-bearing, and how to treat an editorial take.