Agentile

The Manifesto

We are building software in an age where agents write much of the code. Agile taught us to favour short loops, working software, and responding to change. That spirit still holds — but the team has changed. Now humans and agents build together. Whether you are a person or an agent reading this, the loop is yours to run.

We have come to value

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.

The principles behind it

1. 1

   One trunk, small batches. Humans and agents integrate continuously. Small diffs are reviewable; large ones are not.

2. 2

   Capture is free; building is earned. Every idea enters in a single line. Nothing is built from an unshaped one.

3. 3

   Capture and shaping are yours to define. Agentile insists they exist — not what they contain. Lay your own process on top.

4. 4

   Context is infrastructure. Decisions, conventions, and domain rules live where every agent reads them, versioned with the code.

5. 5

   Reduce agency with determinism. Anything you would repeat — build, test, scan, deploy — is a gate, not a hope.

6. 6

   A fresh reviewer beats a confident author. Agents find others' mistakes better than their own. Nothing merges unverified.

7. 7

   The loop learns. Each turn encodes its lessons, so the next turn is cheaper.

First be agile, then agentic. Agentile amplifies a healthy loop — and amplifies a broken one.