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ship at agent speed.without the slop.

defract is the agentic ide for ai-native teams. you approve scope, design and architecture. agents groom, build, review and release — in parallel, in their own git worktrees, without stepping on each other's toes.

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open beta · macos only · apple silicon + intel
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backlog
STORY-142
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add stripe checkout to settings page
scopedesignarchitectureimplementationreviewrelease
scope preview12 criteria · 6 checks · 6 risks

what we're building

add a one-click stripe checkout to the billing settings page. tied to the existing org-level customer record, gated behind role:owner. preview deploy → 5% → 25% → 100%.

criteria
12
checks
6
risks
6
terminalactivitydiffclaude code v2.1.126 · ⎇ STORY-142
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beta · todayclaude codemacosv1 · soon+ codex+ gemini+ opencode+ windows · linux
why defract

an agentic ide for ai-native teams.

defract gives your team a real workflow for working with agents — fast, parallel, and quiet inside your head.

01

speed without the slop

blazing fast parallel development. agents review agents — code only ships after it's been verified, typed and tested. quality is the floor, not the trade-off.

02

lower cognitive load

no more ending the day with your head hurting from context-switching. you weigh in on scope, design, architecture. agents handle the rest. you stay above the work, not buried in it.

03

ship in parallel, never collide

every story runs in its own git worktree. multiple agents, multiple humans, multiple features — at the same time, without stepping on each other's toes.

04

one integrated UI

agentic backlog grooming, scoping, design, architecture, implementation, review and release — in one place. no more stitching across six tools and twenty browser tabs.

the pipeline

scope to release. one continuous flow.
humans approve the decisions. agents do the work.

01/groom

scope

agents groom your backlog and turn ideas into structured stories — acceptance criteria, edge cases, success metrics. you approve the shape.

how it works

five ideas, working together.

01

deep claude code integration

not a wrapper. defract speaks claude code's protocol natively — full tool access, full context, zero round-trip overhead. v1 adds codex, gemini, opencode the same way.

02

battle-proven agents

scoping, design, architecture, implementation, review — each role is a specialist agent, tuned and stress-tested across thousands of stories before they ever touch your repo.

03

embedded memory & learnings

defract remembers your codebase, your decisions, your conventions. every shipped story sharpens the next one. the system gets smarter the more you use it.

04

git worktrees, orchestrated

every story gets its own worktree. agents work in isolation, in parallel, without ai slop spilling into main. clean diffs. clean history. no collisions.

05

you decide. agents execute.

you weigh in on scope, design and architecture. agents implement, review and gate the merge. you see working features, not 800-line diffs to babysit.

two modes

work the way you want to work.

every story can run on autopilot or with you in the loop. you decide the leash, story by story.

autopilot.

you set the destination. defract drives. agents groom, scope, design, build, review and merge — only stopping at the gates you choose. ideal for confident teams who trust the flow.

  • optional review gates at any stage
  • agents merge after their own sign-off
  • you ship features, not commits
  • ideal for parallel, high-volume work
autopilot
>story queue --auto
✓ STORY-141 · live · 12m
✓ STORY-142 · live · 18m
⎇ STORY-143 · in review
⎇ STORY-144 · building
built for

ai-native teams that want to ship fast.

you, if
  • your team ships to production every week, not every quarter
  • you want leverage per engineer — not more engineers
  • you've outgrown chatting with a single agent in a single tab
  • you want speed without giving up types, tests, and clean diffs
  • you're tired of agents stepping on each other's branches
×not yet, if
  • ×you want a no-code builder
  • ×your codebase is closed-source and air-gapped
  • ×you want agents to merge into main without any oversight
faq

questions you'll ask anyway.