// AGENTLAYER · MAKE YOUR ENGINEERING TEAM AI-NATIVE
How engineering teams ship the agentic era.
Going 0 to 1 or scaling past launch: we fork our production agent, agent-kevin, into your stack and embed a forward-deployed engineer for four to six weeks. Engineers ship with agents by week one. Your knowledge compiles into a brain the executive floor runs on. Engineering goes first; everything else rides on it.
// AGENTLAYER · dev.agentlayer.one
// ONE DEPLOYMENT · TWO SURFACES · ONE ORDER
Engineering goes first. The company follows.
Every deployment wins the same two audiences: engineers who want the multiplier, executives who want the brain. One deployment serves both, in that order.
The agentic multiplier
You bought the AI tool seats. The team ships the same way it did last year.
A forward-deployed engineer sets up the foundations in your actual codebase and pairs with your team until shipping with agents is the default, not the demo.
- ▸Operating manual, skills, and permission rails for your stack
- ▸Parallel worktree workflows and real review discipline
- ▸MCP integrations: CI, logs, database, issue tracker
The company brain
Your company knows things no document says. It lives in heads and chat scrollback.
The same deployment compiles institutional knowledge into a living brain: briefings, dashboards, support and compliance workflows on your own data. The agent that ships your code is the agent that knows your company.
- ▸A knowledge tree seeded from your real corpus, compounding monthly
- ▸Daily briefings and a live dashboard for operators
- ▸Self-hosted: your keys, your servers, nothing leaves the building
// THE WEDGE IS ENGINEERING · THE MOAT IS THE BRAIN
30 SKILLS
slash-command workflows: briefings, goals, releases, audits, project sync
46 TOOLS
MCP tools: browser, database, GitHub, search, tasks, knowledge pipeline
1-FILE DASHBOARD
mission control as a single static HTML file: no server, no accounts
OPEN SOURCE
Apache-2.0, live at github.com/AgentLayer1/agent-kevin
// PROOF BEFORE PROMISES
// IN PRACTICE · REAL PROMPTS, REAL SYSTEMS
What a wired-in agent actually does.
Tool seats answer questions about code. An agent wired into your logs, database, and company history answers questions about your business. That difference is the product.
// SESSION START · PRIMING CONTEXT
// LOGS · DATABASE · CI · WEB: ONE TOOL CALL AWAY
who it is · soul, identity, and your operating manual
loadedwho you are · how you work, how you want answers
loadedthe rules · your coding standards, scoped per path
loadedthe brain · active threads, recent decisions, the task board
loadedthe lessons · every correction your team made, compiled
loadedthe trail · last session’s tail and recent git activity
loadedZero briefing, zero context-pasting, no “as I mentioned last time.” Every session below starts from all of this, already loaded.
// CONTEXT PRIMED · 6/6
The customer bug, before standup
> a customer says checkout fails intermittently since yesterday. find it
The agent pulls the request timeline from your logs by correlation ID, queries the read-only database replica for the affected rows, points at the commit that introduced the regression, and drafts the fix with a test that replays the failing requests.
The incident, reconstructed
> we got paged at 02:10. what actually happened?
It rebuilds the timeline from logs, checks it against the runbook the brain compiled from every previous incident, identifies the diverging step, and drafts the postmortem with the runbook diff attached.
The feature, planned with context
> plan the usage-based billing migration
The plan cites the pricing decision from three months ago, applies your migration rules for billing tables, and flags the conflict with the launch thread already in flight. Nothing gets re-litigated, nothing gets missed.
The account question, answered with receipts
> what happened with the Meridian account last week?
It traces every touchpoint across logs, tickets, and session history, summarizes the sequence with links to each source, and drafts the customer response for review.
// PATTERNS FROM TWO PRODUCTION DEPLOYMENTS: A FINTECH SCALING PAST LAUNCH · A STARTUP GOING 0 TO 1
// THE COMPANY BRAIN · HOW IT ACTUALLY WORKS
A brain that compiles itself.
Not a search box over your docs. A living knowledge base that captures how your company actually works, compiles it into structured memory, and feeds every result back into the loop. Never finished; that is the point.
IDENTITY · WHO IT IS
The agent itself
- ▸Its soul and character, versioned as files
- ▸Your operating manual and coding rules
- ▸Who you are and how you like to work
WORK · AS IT HAPPENS
Every day, automatically
- ▸Every agent session, captured by hooks
- ▸Commits, pull requests, and CI runs
- ▸Tasks, decisions, and their threads
- ▸Briefings and reports it already wrote
SYSTEMS · CONNECTED
Your stack, live
- ▸Slack channels it works in
- ▸Production database, read-only
- ▸Logs, uptime, and incidents
- ▸The web: search, pages, captures
KNOWLEDGE · DROPPED IN
What your team hands it
- ▸Docs, specs, and tickets
- ▸Anything dropped in its inbox
- ▸Corrections and feedback, logged verbatim
// EVERYTHING ABOVE FLOWS THROUGH ONE LOOP
Capture
Nothing depends on anyone remembering to write things down. Hooks capture every agent session raw: the work, the decisions, the corrections. Commits, tasks, and dropped documents land in the same intake.
Compile
A compile pass turns raw capture into a structured wiki: company facets, cross-cutting concept articles, daily memory, and learnings distilled from feedback. Stale entries are pruned; the index stays lean enough to load every session.
Serve
The brain is what the agents run on. Engineering agents plan and code with full company context instead of a bare repo. Executives get briefings that reference yesterday’s actual events, and the dashboard renders it all in one file.
Feedback
Every briefing read, task closed, and correction made is itself captured and compiled. Outputs become inputs. The brain that briefed you this morning is smarter by tonight, and next week’s work starts further ahead.
// WHAT THAT BUYS YOU
Engineers onboard in days. The brain answers the questions that used to cost a senior engineer’s afternoon.
Decisions stay decided. Agents cite the original tradeoff instead of re-litigating it, and flag conflicts with active work.
Memory survives departures. What people know is compiled out of their heads and into an asset the company owns.
// CAPTURE → COMPILE → SERVE → FEEDBACK · THE FLYWHEEL NEVER STOPS
// MISSION CONTROL · ONE HTML FILE
The dashboard: your company, one file.
Every fork ships with a mission-control dashboard rendered as a single static HTML file. It is where the executive floor lives, and the fastest way to watch the brain work.
// A REAL RENDER, SEEDED WITH DEMO DATA FOR A FICTITIOUS COMPANY
// THE TABS
Today · the morning brief and the day’s plan
Tasks · every project on one board, from frontmatter, never stale
Brain · the compiled knowledge base, browsable
Sessions · a radar of what the agents worked on
Reports · briefings, audits, and reviews, dated
Goals · weekly, monthly, and quarterly, tied to real tasks
The company at a glance
Today’s plan, tasks across every project, the brain, sessions, and reports. One page your executives actually open.
Zero infrastructure
One static HTML file. No server, no accounts, nothing to deploy or patch. Regenerates from your data, opens in any browser.
Private by construction
Built locally from your knowledge tree and task files. Never phones home, never leaves your machines, works offline.
Everything is a file
Every card links to the markdown underneath: tasks, briefings, brain articles. No database, no lock-in, greppable forever.
// ONE SETUP FEE · ONE SUBSCRIPTION
Open source to run yourself. Or deployed into your team and kept on the frontier.
Open Source
Run agent-kevin yourself. The full reference implementation, no contract, no signup.
- Complete agent-kevin source
- All skills, hooks & MCP tools
- Self-hosted, your infrastructure
- Community support
- Apache-2.0 licensed
AI-Native
+ fixed-scope onboarding, priced in the SOW
Your engineering team transformed first, your knowledge compiled into a company brain, one deployment on your infrastructure. Kept on the frontier as models and capabilities shift.
- agent-<company> forked onto your infrastructure, your keys
- A forward-deployed engineer embedded with your team
- Company brain: briefings, dashboard, department workflows
- Every product improvement ships to every subscriber
- A monthly working session and direct support
- Cancel anytime and keep everything: the fork, the brain, the setup
- Annual prepay option: 10 months for 12
Enterprise
Multiple teams, on-prem or private cloud, custom integrations and dedicated support.
- Everything in AI-Native
- Multi-team deployment
- On-prem / private-cloud options
- Custom integrations & skills
- Dedicated support & response SLAs
- Security & compliance review
The subscription buys the setup and keeps you on the frontier: it runs as long as you want us training your team and evolving the brain, not a day longer. Stop whenever, and everything stays yours: the fork, the company brain, every workflow. Or skip the subscription entirely and run the same thing yourself on the open-source path.
// SERVICES & SUPPORT · agent-kevin itself is and stays open source.
// HOW IT WORKS · WEEK 0 TO WEEK 6
A product with a definition of done.
Five phases, fixed scope, and an exit test on every one. A forward-deployed engineer runs the whole arc inside your team, starting with engineering, because the rest of the transformation rides on it.
- 00WEEK 0
Pre-flight
Your wizard answers become the scoping agenda: team map, stack map, where your knowledge actually lives. SOW signed, access provisioned, a champion named in engineering and a sponsor on the executive floor.
Exit testThe embed starts Monday with zero waiting.
- 01WEEK 1
Deploy + engineering foundations
We fork the agent into your infrastructure under your keys, write its operating manual for your codebase, and pair with your engineers on real tickets. The transformation starts inside engineering, on day one.
Exit testAn engineer other than the champion has shipped with the agent.
- 02WEEKS 2–3
Company brain
We seed a knowledge tree from your real corpus and stand up briefings and a dashboard for your sponsor. The brain comes early on purpose: an agent that knows your company plans and codes at a different level than one reading a bare repo.
Exit testThe sponsor checks the brain unprompted; the agent answers from company context, not just code.
- 03WEEKS 3–5
Super-charge the team
Whole-team enablement on brain-fed agents: planning, verification discipline, parallel workflows, integrations into CI, logs, and your tracker. 0-to-1 teams get ship discipline; 1-to-2 teams get monitoring and incident leverage.
Exit testThe team ships with agents daily, unprompted. Usage is visible, not claimed.
- 04WEEK 6
Handover + steady state
A self-serve runbook, your own operating cadences installed, a graduation call. The subscription rhythm begins: monthly working session, product updates shipped to every subscriber, the brain compounding.
Exit testOne week of normal operation with zero intervention from us.
// QUESTIONS WE GET FIRST
What happens after the wizard?
Your answers become a seed file: the identity, soul, and company context your agent is forked from. An operator forks agent-kevin from it and walks you through your own agent in a guided demo. Today a human runs the fork; the roadmap is one flow from wizard to running agent.
Can we start with the company brain and skip engineering?
No, and the order is the method. The agent that compiles your knowledge is the agent your engineers ship with; engineering builds the rails the brain runs on. The transformation starts inside your engineering team, and the executive floor gets the brain because of it.
Where does our data live?
On your infrastructure, under your keys. The agent is forked into your environment and the brain runs on your servers. Nothing leaves the building, which is why real institutional knowledge can go into it.
What happens if we cancel?
You keep the deployment. It is your fork on your servers and it keeps running. The subscription buys product updates, the monthly working session, and support. Month-to-month, no lock-in.
Why not self-host the open source ourselves?
You can, and some teams should. agent-kevin is Apache-2.0 and stays that way. The subscription pays for the operator who has run this in production, the enablement that retools your team, and a deployment kept current with an ecosystem that shifts every quarter.
What happens when the models change?
That is the recurring product. Models, protocols, and capabilities move quarterly, and every improvement ships to every subscriber. Keeping your deployment on the frontier is the work you are paying for.
// THE 15-MINUTE WIZARD
Seven prompts. Then your agent exists.
Seven prompts, answered like a terminal. They become the seed file your agent is forked from; an operator returns a guided demo of it running. The end state: this wizard forks the agent end to end, no humans required.
// PROMPT 01 OF 07
> Which company are we forking an agent for?
// TODAY AN OPERATOR RUNS THE FORK · TOMORROW THE WIZARD DOES IT END TO END
// THE ENGINEERING SHIFT
“Engineering teams don't need another agent framework demo. They need the patterns that survive production (orchestration, identity, audit, observability), implemented and proven.”
Most agentic-AI material in 2026 is demo code. AgentDev is the inverse: production patterns first, demo code last. Everything here comes from agent-kevin, our open-source agent in daily production: hooks, heartbeat tasks, knowledge compilation, a compiled company brain, and a one-file mission-control dashboard.
The non-negotiables for a team adopting agents are the ones that survive contact with production: orchestration, identity, compliance, observability, governance. We set them up in your stack, then teach your team to run them.
Position: “How engineering teams ship the agentic era.” A product with onboarding, not consulting with a logo. Open source first, product second, hours never.
// PATTERNS, NOT DEMOS
// MALAYSIA-BUILT · IN-PRODUCTION
AgentDev is built in Malaysia by AgentLayer Sdn Bhd. agent-kevin runs in production daily, and every company deployment is a fork of it. Patterns extracted from real production use, not whiteboard speculation.
Your agent starts with seven prompts.
Fifteen minutes about your company, your stack, and your team. Your answers become the seed file, we fork the agent from it, and you get a guided demo of it running.