Nimble

Agentic Factory

The Factory’s specialized AI agents take approved specs through implementation, testing and validation. It draws on project knowledge, code and engineering standards, runs automated quality and security checks, and prepares results for review and release.

A new software lifecycle · End to end

The ADLC Loop

Specs feed the Harness, the Harness feeds the expert, and the expert feeds the next cycle.

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PHASE 01Plan & Define
PHASE 02Execute
PHASE 03Assess & Review
  1. Phase 01: Plan & Define. Outcome: Ready for Agent.
    1. PRD Creator. An AI skill turns the idea, call notes and context into a structured product requirements document: goals, users, scope and acceptance criteria.
    2. PRD Validator. A second skill challenges the PRD for gaps, ambiguity and conflicting requirements before anything technical is designed.
    3. TRD Creator. Translates the approved PRD into a technical design: architecture, data model, interfaces and constraints, grounded in the existing codebase.
    4. TRD Validator. Checks the design against engineering standards, security guardrails and the Knowledge Base, flagging risks early.
    5. TRD Slicer. Breaks the design into small, independently implementable units, each with clear inputs, outputs and tests.
    6. Artifacts on the Jira card. PRD, TRD and slices are attached to the card, so the work item carries everything an agent or engineer needs.
  2. Phase 02: Execute. Outcome: Agent Finished.
    1. Orchestrator picks up the card. When a card reaches “Ready for Agent”, the orchestrator claims it and plans the run.
    2. Preflight. Validates the spec one more time and decomposes it into subtasks the agents can run.
    3. Execution. Specialized agents implement the subtasks in parallel, following project conventions and the Knowledge Base.
    4. Ephemeral sandbox. Each run gets an isolated environment with proxied credentials, so agents never hold real secrets.
    5. Draft PR opened. Work lands as a draft pull request and the card moves to “Agent Working”, keeping every change traceable.
    6. Postflight. Tests, linting, type checks and security scans run before the work is marked finished.
  3. Phase 03: Assess & Review. Outcome: PR closed → sandbox destroyed.
    1. Expert reviews the PR. A Nimble engineer reviews the PR like any other code review, focusing on design and intent.
    2. Harness picks up the comments. Review comments are collected by the Harness and turned into instructions for the agent.
    3. Card → “Ready for Agent”. The card goes back to the agent queue with the expert’s feedback attached.
    4. Agent applies the changes. The agent implements the requested changes. The expert steers; nobody fixes by hand.
    5. Postflight re-runs. Validation runs again and the Harness posts the results on the PR, ready for approval.

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