Autonomous coding agents

Run issue-to-PR work with selected repositories, branch boundaries, and review.

Attach a customer-configured execution environment for files, shell, git, and tests. Then inspect the selected repositories, make the change, push a review branch, and keep merge authority separate.

GitHub authority in the product

Scope repository access and sensitive PR actions separately.

The Agent identity carries the repository and branch boundary. Ask mode can then pause the exact pull request call before GitHub receives it.

Maintenance Agent identity with a GitHub pull request grant limited to a selected repository and agent branches
The GitHub grant names the repository and branch pattern available to this Agent identity.
Pending GitHub pull request approval showing the exact owner, repository, title, head branch, and base branch
The pull request write pauses with its exact arguments when the matching action uses Ask mode.

What stays bounded

Keep the coding task reviewable from branch to PR.

The useful default is branch first: use a configured VM, container, or local machine to inspect and test the code; use ExecWarden-mediated GitHub authority for the review branch and PR.

Selected repositories

Give the agent a bounded code surface.

Grant the repositories this task needs instead of handing an agent a broad token for every repository the human can access.

Review branch

Let code changes land somewhere inspectable.

The safer default is branch first, checks and diff second, merge authority last.

Evidence

Keep the run understandable afterward.

Each activity record can show the caller, capability, grant, approval decision, and provider result.

Where teams start

Tasks that fit the branch-first coding path.

1Dependency update with test output and a PR.
2Failed CI investigation that pushes a focused branch.
3Small bug fix with branch pattern enforcement.

Start a coding task

Connect GitHub, push a review branch, and keep merge authority separate.

The fastest first test is a coding task that ends in a branch, test output, and a PR someone can inspect.

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