Autonomous Dev Team

A fully automated development pipeline that turns issues into merged pull requests — no human intervention required. It scans for issues labeled autonomous, dispatches a Dev Agent to implement the feature with tests in an isolated worktree, and hands off to a Review Agent for code review with optional E2E verification. The entire cycle runs unattended on a cron schedule.

• Code hosts: GitHub and GitLab (gitlab.com or any standard self-managed instance) via pluggable provider seams — see GitLab support.
• Agent CLIs: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kiro CLI, opencode, Cursor Agent, Antigravity CLI (agy), and most CLIs with a -p non-interactive flag — see docs/agent-clis.md.

Knowledge after merge

Dev and review sessions can retain verified lessons across retries. After a confirmed merge, useful updates go to the nearest AGENTS.md, docs/troubleshooting/, or docs/lessons-learned/ in a separate documentation commit and PR. Existing facts are revised rather than duplicated. No new or corrected information means no documentation change, empty commit or extra model call. Machine details and credential references stay in ignored, mode-600 AGENTS.local.md; credential values remain in their existing private sources.

The Stop hook checks an assessment, which may explicitly report no update. Read the recording and retry reference for interactive use. After upgrading skills, re-run the project bootstrap and your agent's hook installer to register the new Stop hook.

Quick Start

Option A: Install as portable skills (recommended)

npx skills add zxkane/autonomous-dev-team

Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Antigravity, Kiro CLI, and 40+ agents. After installing, follow docs/installation.md for the post-install wiring (symlinks, plugins, autonomous.conf, labels) — it includes a copy-paste prompt that lets your AI agent drive the whole setup.

Option B: Use as a template (full pipeline)

1. Clone and configure:

   gh repo create my-project --template zxkane/autonomous-dev-team
   cd my-project
   cp scripts/autonomous.conf.example scripts/autonomous.conf
   # Edit autonomous.conf — see docs/installation.md Step 4 for every key.
   

2. Create the pipeline labels:

   ( source scripts/autonomous.conf && bash scripts/setup-labels.sh "$REPO" )
   

3. Schedule the dispatcher tick. Anything that can run a shell command on a cadence works: