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Agents are the workers. hashd is the factory.
Most AI coding tools make one person faster at one task. hashd sits a layer above them: it runs your agents through a governed, team-wide process and keeps the record of everything they did.
The landscape
Four kinds of tool, and where hashd sits.
hashd does not compete with coding agents; it uses them. It overlaps with the other categories only where they try to own the whole path from requirement to merge.
Coding agents
Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Gemini
Excellent at writing code in a session. hashd runs them as its workers, per stage, so you keep the agents you trust and add process around them.
hashd runs these.
AI editors
Cursor, Windsurf and others
Great for a developer working interactively in a file. hashd is not an editor and has no inline completions. Use both: your editor for hands-on work, hashd for the governed line.
A different layer. Use both.
Parallel-agent launchers
Many agents, many worktrees
They make it easy to run lots of agent sessions at once. hashd runs workstreams in parallel too, but each one goes through stories, gates, review and a merge decision, with a record of all of it.
hashd adds the process and the record.
Autonomous engineers
Hand off a ticket, get a PR
Built to take a task end to end on their own. hashd lets you choose how much runs unattended, per project, and always stops for a person when something fails. It runs on your infrastructure with your agents and your credentials.
hashd keeps humans at the gates that matter.
What to ask any tool
The questions that matter for a team.
When you evaluate AI development tools for a team, these are the questions hashd was built to answer. Here is how hashd answers each one.
| Question | hashd |
|---|---|
| Is work scoped before an agent starts? | Yes. Requirements become stories with acceptance criteria, accepted by a person. |
| Is every change tested and reviewed? | Yes. Every micro-commit passes your tests and a structured AI review before it lands, and the whole branch gets a final review. |
| Who decides what merges? | You choose per project: a person at every commit, at the merge only, or for flagged concerns. Failures always stop for a person. |
| Can you trace a line back to why it exists? | Yes. Requirement, story, prompt, model, review and sign-off, exportable as SLSA or in-toto, with a verifiable hash chain. |
| Does it know who did what on a team? | Yes. Per-user identity on every request, owners on every work item, per-user agent credentials. |
| Can you use more than one agent vendor? | Yes. Assign any supported agent to any stage. Claude Code and Codex are verified; five more are in preview. |
| Where does it run? | On your machines or your own server. There is no hashd cloud holding your code. |
| What does it cost to run? | hashd is free in solo mode for individuals and teams of up to 10 engineers. Team mode, support and larger organizations use a commercial agreement. Every agent call is recorded, so you see token spend by story, stage, agent and model. |
Honest about the gaps
What hashd does not have yet.
If you need any of these today, tell us. They shape the roadmap.
- No IDE extension. hashd works from the terminal, the browser and Telegram.
- No SSO, SOC 2 or per-project access control. Team mode has users, roles and ownership, and every signed-in user can see every project.
- No signed attestations. Exports are tamper-evident through the hash chain, but not cryptographically signed.
- No third-party MCP servers. hashd ships its own tools to agents, and does not yet register others.
Put your team's agents on the line.
One command installs hashd and everything it needs except git and a coding agent. Free in solo mode for individuals and teams of up to 10 engineers. Team mode comes with a commercial agreement. Pricing
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codr1/hashd-code/main/install.sh | bash
Rolling out to a team?
We work closely with a small group of design partners: hands-on onboarding, a direct line to the people building hashd, and a real say in what we build next.
Become a design partner