Agentic engineering

An agent pipeline your team runs.

Written requests go in, reviewed changes come out, and your people decide what ships. Set up on your own infrastructure, with hosted or local models.

01 / What a change goes through

Five steps, and a person at the end.

  1. A written request

    A ticket from your own queue, written by your people. No chat session.

  2. An agent builds it

    On your own infrastructure, with a hosted or a local model. Safety rules are enforced in code, not left to the model.

  3. Tests re-run

    After every step the agent takes, not once at the end.

  4. The change is reviewed

    It arrives from your ticket queue as a reviewed change, not a draft.

  5. Your people decide

    What ships is their decision, with a record of what every step cost.

02 / What you receive

Agents doing real work, not demos.

It stays inside

The pipeline runs on your own infrastructure and can use local models, so code never has to leave your network.

Rules in code

Safety rules are enforced in code, not left to the model, and tests re-run after every step an agent takes.

Every step costed

You get a record of what every step cost, so the spend on each change is a figure and not a guess.

03 / Ours, running

We build this way ourselves, every day.

The pipeline Papillon sets up for clients is the one it runs for its own products. Every figure here is a change the pipeline itself picked up, built, reviewed and merged, read from its own records.

Updated 12 Nov, 17:55

273
changes merged by the pipeline since September 2026, across 4 areas of work
162
in the last 30 days
29
so far this week
46minutes
median time from pickup to merged change

Latest deployment: Print-shop manager, version d862ee2 on 12 Nov, 17:25. Here a merged change is a deployed one.

Changes merged by the pipeline, by area of work
AreaMergedLast 30 daysLast 12 weeksLatest deployment

Counts and dates only. A change is a ticket the pipeline picked up from a written request and took to a reviewed, merged pull request with no chat session. Work done any other way is not counted. Metered model spend across all of it: $33.23, or 12¢ a change. Half of the changes took longer than the median time, some of them much longer.

04 / Questions

Questions people ask first

Can AI agents work on code that must not leave our network?

Yes. The agent pipeline runs on your own infrastructure and can use local models, so nothing has to go to a hosted service.

Who decides what ships?

Your people. The pipeline takes a written request through to a reviewed change. Whether that change goes out is their decision.

How do we know what it costs to run?

Every step is recorded with its cost. Papillon's own figures are on this page: metered model spend, in total and for each change.

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