Agentic software engineering
AI coding agents for teams
An AI coding agent plans a change, edits code and runs commands on its own instead of completing a line at a time. That works on a scratch project. On a shared repository with review, CI, security and a budget, the hard part is not generating code — it is keeping autonomous work observable, steerable and reviewable.
Where agentic coding breaks down at team scale
Work lands where nobody can see it
An agent editing a working copy leaves no reviewable unit. Phloem gives every executable ticket its own feature branch on GitHub or GitLab, so the repository stays the source of truth and each change arrives as a normal review.
Review evidence drifts from the code
Tests that passed on an older commit say nothing about the one being merged. Phloem ties CI, tests, security, audit, preview and deployment evidence to the exact commit SHA a human reviews.
One agent tries to do everything
Planning, implementation, testing and review pull in different directions. Phloem splits them into Product Owner, Architect, Engineer, Tester, Security, DevOps, Reviewer and Evaluator roles moving through one visible workflow.
Spend is invisible until the invoice
Autonomous retries are expensive. Phloem tracks API cost, compute and Lovable credits separately with project, feature and stage limits that stop work at 100%.
What a controllable setup looks like
Repository-native
Isolated ticket branches; GitHub or GitLab stays canonical.
Role-based agent teams
Eight roles in one observable workflow, not a single prompt loop.
Evidence before merge
Merge decisions read evidence bound to the reviewed commit.
Programmable budgets
Hard caps per workspace, day, mission, agent and provider.
Division of labour
Agents plan and implement. Humans control budget and merge.
Phloem can audit a repository, propose migrations, estimate budget scenarios and generate tickets automatically. Migration execution stays off by default until it is approved, and every merge still passes through a human reading evidence for that exact commit.