Cat Factory
A visual board, task management, and LLM coding agents in one place. Turn tasks into reviewed pull requests you can watch run end to end.
The board is the plan
Lay out services, modules, and tasks on a pannable, zoomable canvas. Every block is both your plan and a unit of work, so there's no separate backlog to keep in sync.
Agents do real work
Coding agents clone your repository, implement the task, and open a pull request. A block is "done" only when its PR is merged with passing CI.
Multi-stage pipelines
Compose ordered agent chains (Architect → Coder → Reviewer → Tester → Acceptance) with default models per agent kind and human decision points along the way.
Human in the loop
A reviewer agent flags open questions and risky assumptions before code is written. You answer the questions, approve the plan, and review every PR before merge.
Durable & observable
Runs are checkpointed, so they survive interruptions and resume where they left off. Watch each step, decision prompt, and failure as it happens.
Cost under control
Set an organization-wide monthly LLM budget. Spend is metered per run, runs pause at the cap, and resume automatically on the next billing period.
From board to merged PRs
Cat Factory is a self-hosted platform that turns a visual board of work into shipped code. You lay out the work visually; LLM agents pick up each block, implement it against a real repository checkout, and open pull requests for your team to review and merge. The board is also your central place to work: you can see every run as it happens and step in when an agent needs you.
You assemble a thin deployment project on top of the published @cat-factory/* packages, then deploy it:
# Deploy the backend to Cloudflare
wrangler d1 migrations apply <your-d1-database> --remote
pnpm deploy
# Build and publish the frontend
NUXT_PUBLIC_API_BASE=https://your-api-domain.com pnpm generate
pnpm deploy
Where to next?
- New here? Start with the Introduction and Core Concepts.
- Want it running? Follow the Quick Start or pick a deployment target under Deploy & Operate.
- Daily driver? Jump into Designing Your Board and Running Pipelines.
- Integrating your infra? See Integration Manifests and the Architecture reference.
A note on scope
This site documents how to deploy and use Cat Factory. For source code, issues, and contribution guidelines, head to the kibertoad/cat-factory repository.