How AgentSDE works
AgentSDE runs AI agents inside your own repository. An issue comes in, moves through a pipeline of phases, and an agent opens a pull request on your branch, under your reviewers and your checks.
#The loop
Everything AgentSDE does is one loop, repeated. You bring the issue and the repository; the agent brings the work; your existing review process decides what ships.
An issue arrives
Work starts from a tracker you already use · GitHub Issues, Jira, or Bitbucket. An intake trigger decides which issues an agent picks up, so nothing runs until you say so.
An agent takes it through phases
A run moves through an ordered set of phases · restate the brief, plan the change, deliver a diff, review it, and compound what was learned. Each phase leaves an artefact you can read.
A pull request opens
The agent pushes to its own branch and opens a pull request, requesting the reviewers your branch protection already requires. You review it like any other contributor’s.
Agents are contributors, not admins. Branch protection, required reviewers and required checks apply to their pull requests exactly as they do to a human’s. There is no path to a protected branch that skips review.
#What you configure
Most teams start on the defaults and change one thing at a time.