The pipeline
One orchestrator runs the work phase by phase. Every agent reads the same context, served by the MCP over a knowledge graph built on Couchbase. You stay in control at each gate — and everything between the gates happens in parallel, in minutes.
Design Spec
PRD in · design doc outA planner, domain specialists, a critic, and a reviser turn a product requirements doc into a full high- and low-level design — grounded in the real codebase through the MCP.
Engineers answer the agents' clarifying questions, then review and resolve comments directly in the published design doc before approving it.
Code Design
design in · plan of PRs outThe approved design becomes a coding spec: a dependency-ordered graph of pull requests, each one scoped small enough to build, test, and review on its own.
Engineers review the plan — what will be built and in what order — before a single line of code is written.
Execution
plan in · merged code outFor every PR in the graph, a sandboxed coding agent implements the change, runs the repo's tests, and hands off to a second AI reviewer. Only then does a signed, Verified pull request open on GitHub. Dependent PRs wait until their prerequisites merge, and the whole graph runs in parallel.
A test gate and an independent AI review run first; then the engineer does the final review and merge. Review comments flow straight back to the agent, which fixes and re-pushes on its own.
Quality Engineering
merged code in · verified release outUNDER IMPLEMENTATIONBeyond the per-PR test gate, a QE agent will author and run full regression and scenario suites across the assembled feature, catching integration failures that unit tests miss.
A QE engineer signs off on coverage and results before the feature moves to release.
Documentation
feature in · published docs outUNDER IMPLEMENTATIONA documentation agent will draft internal and public-facing docs from the design, the code, and the knowledge graph, keeping the written record in step with what actually shipped.
Docs and product review and approve every page — a gate that stays, because a hallucinated doc can't be caught the way a failing test can.
Orchestration
The orchestrator runs the whole pipeline.
It drives each phase, tracks the state of every run, retries failures automatically, and pages a human only when a gate needs a decision. Work that used to take days of hand-offs collapses into minutes.
Shared context
One context, everywhere.
Every agent — spec, design, and execution — reads from the same MCP context server, a small read-only surface over the knowledge graph built on Couchbase. No agent works blind; the whole stack shares one view of the codebase.
Software gets written the way it gets specified.
AIDLC closes the gap between the two.
for Couchbase eyes only