How SuperPlane works

SuperPlane connects your development tickets, coding agents, source control, continuous integration (CI) and review process into a software factory. Intake automations import matching tickets and record confidence scores. Factory lines then give agents a controlled path to execute approved tasks, apply configured checks and bring your team in when human judgment is needed.

The factory owns the process. Agents perform the work inside it.

1. Work enters the factory

Start with the work your team already has

SuperPlane connects to the tools where engineering work already lives. Connect a GitHub repository and issues can appear in the factory backlog without developers copying tasks into another system. You can also assign tasks through Jira and Linear.

Each issue becomes a piece of work that SuperPlane tracks from intake through implementation and verification. Your existing tools remain part of the workflow. SuperPlane coordinates them and lets you use your preferred coding agent and model provider.

Connect a repository and SuperPlane starts turning the existing backlog into factory work.

2. Discover what agents should work on

Not every ticket should go to an agent

Before implementation begins the Backlog automation can inspect the task and repository context and report a confidence check. The score and its reason show whether the request has a bounded scope, enough context and an observable success condition. Your routing rule decides whether a task can move forward or must stay visible for the team.

The assessment considers scope, available context and test coverage. It helps your team decide which tasks are ready before an agent starts work.

The confidence indicator shows which tasks are stronger candidates for agent execution.

3. Follow the work on one board

Every task has a visible state

Once work enters SuperPlane you can see where it is in the software factory.

Stage	What it means
Backlog	Work has been discovered and is being evaluated or waiting to start.
Implement	An agent is working on the change.
Verify	SuperPlane is checking the result including pull request feedback and status checks.
Done	The pull request has completed the factory workflow.

The board shows where the task is. The workflow tells SuperPlane how to move it forward.

4. Agents do the engineering work

Configure the worker for each stage

When a task enters an agent powered stage SuperPlane runs the configured agent with the model, instructions, tools and execution steps you define.

An implementation agent can follow this sequence:

1. Clone the repository
2. Understand and implement the task
3. Commit and push the change
4. Prepare the pull request
5. Publish the result

The agent is replaceable.The process remains consistent across models and tools.

Choose the model, control parallel work and define the steps that the agent follows.

5. Automations control how work moves

Agents work while automations orchestrate

An agent performs a piece of engineering work. An automation defines what happens around that work.

The Implement automation can start the agent, capture errors and artifacts, find or create the pull request, attach it to the task and update task progress. The logic for completing engineering work does not need to live inside one enormous agent prompt.

Automations keep the process visible and repeatable around every agent run.

6. Verify the result

A generated pull request is not the finish line

After implementation SuperPlane continues working on the result. The Verify stage handles failing status checks and pull request feedback. If something fails that feedback can return to the workflow for another attempt.

Verification checks the result and returns actionable failures to the workflow.

7. Humans stay in control

Automate bounded work without automating judgment

SuperPlane does not remove developers from every decision. The factory continues automatically when the outcome is clear and stops when the next step requires judgment.

A person remains responsible for decisions such as accepting uncertain work, reviewing important changes or merging the final pull request.

Humans handle decisions. The factory handles coordination.

Who benefits from SuperPlane?

SuperPlane helps engineering teams and individual developers use agents for repeatable work without managing every task step by step.

• Work through bugs, dependency updates and small improvements with a consistent process for deciding what agents can take on.
• Turn defined issues into pull requests with the configured status checks and run evidence attached while bringing people in when the work needs judgment.
• Standardize agent driven work across repositories with the same implementation, verification and review guardrails.

SuperPlane helps determine which backlog items can be automated. It does not send every ticket to an agent.

Key terms

• Software factory: The overall system that moves engineering work from discovery through implementation, verification and review.
• Task: A piece of engineering work moving through the factory with its context, progress and outputs.
• Backlog: Work that SuperPlane has discovered but has not yet entered implementation.
• Confidence score: A recorded check that reports whether a task meets the intake criteria configured by the Factory and includes a reason for the result.
• Agent: The worker that understands a task, modifies code, fixes failures or prepares a pull request.
• Automation: The process that controls what runs, what happens after success or failure and how a task moves forward.
• Stage: A state in the task lifecycle such as Backlog, Implement, Verify or Done.
• Verification: The checks that determine whether the agent result is ready for review.

Next steps

Set up SuperPlanePrepare your workspace and connect your first repository.Build your first factoryBring in work and configure agents and automations.Learn the fundamentalsSee how work moves through each factory stage.Explore use casesFollow a GitHub issue through implementation, checks and review.