Ivy

A software factory is a fixed sequence of stages with human checkpoints that turns tickets into reviewed pull requests. Here is how it works and how to start.

Cursor makes a developer faster inside the editor. Ivy Tendril runs delegated work from plan to reviewed pull request. Here is how they differ and when to use each.

Claude Code is a coding agent that runs in your terminal. Ivy Tendril orchestrates agents like it from plan to reviewed pull request. Most teams use both.

Eight requirements that separate a coding-agent pilot from production orchestration: isolation, verification, checkpoints, cost, memory, portability, data, recovery.

Devin is a hosted autonomous engineer that works in Cognition's cloud. Ivy Tendril runs agents on your machine with your own keys and two review gates.

Four patterns for running coding agents, what breaks at each step, and the six things an orchestrator has to own before parallel agents are worth running.

How Ivy Tendril compares with GitHub Copilot coding agent on where code runs, human checkpoints, parallelism, agent choice, and cost control.

What a git worktree is, why it is the right isolation unit for coding agents, the failure modes to expect, and how Ivy Tendril creates and removes one per plan.

What a home-built agent orchestration needs, what it costs to maintain, and when Ivy Tendril or a DIY setup is the better choice.

A verification gate is a check that must pass before a stage advances. These are the gates that matter for agent-written code, and how Ivy Tendril runs them.