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Shepherdby UpilioEarly access

A team of AI developers, with you at the gate.

Shepherd turns your requests into clear GitHub issues, sends crews of AI agents to build, test and review them, and stops for your approval on anything risky.

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How it works

Every change goes through the same four steps.

  1. 01

    Plan

    Every job starts as a written plan with clear checks for done. No guessing.

  2. 02

    Build

    AI does the work inside fences: it can't touch secrets, production or anything you've ruled out.

  3. 03

    Check

    Tests run and separate reviewers read the work before anyone else sees it.

  4. 04

    You approve

    Anything risky waits for a person. You see what changed and why, then decide.

  • A planner

    Talks your request through with you and writes an issue with checks for done, before any code is written.

  • Crews

    A coder, a tester and three reviewers per issue, working on their own branch, one change at a time.

  • Your board

    Everything happens on a GitHub project board you already know. Anything blocked comes back to you with the reason.

The fences

What crews can't do.

These rules are given to every agent on every run, and only a person can change them.

  • Push to your main branch, or merge without passing every check
  • Read, print or commit your secrets
  • Change their own rules or your CI without your approval
  • Delete or skip a test to make the suite pass
  • Carry on when they're unsure. They stop and ask you
What you always get

A full record.

  • A test report against every acceptance check
  • Three separate reviews: spec, standards and quality
  • A summary on the issue of what was done and why
  • The live log of every run
Built with itself

Shepherd builds Shepherd.

  • 106pull requests built and merged by our crews
  • 114issues closed
  • 331commits
  • 32days, from first crew run to today

Figures from our own repository, 28 Sep – 30 Oct 2026.

Early access

Request early access.

We're letting teams in a few at a time, so we can set each one up properly and learn from how they work.

  • For teams and solo developers on GitHub
  • Works with Claude Code
  • We'll reply within two working days

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