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Plan and ship with AI — right inside GitHub

Open source GitHub-native planning

Autonomy is a GitHub-native planner for humans and agents. It recommends the next task, maintains hierarchy, and learns from your overrides — all fully auditable and undoable.

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$ /autonomy next
→ Recommended: Fix user authentication bug (#123)
Priority: High | Sprint: Current | Track: Backend
Undo Available

Built by developers, for developers

Three core principles that make Autonomy different

GitHub-native
Issues, Tasklists, Projects v2. Your data stays in GitHub.

Built on GitHub's native infrastructure with full API integration

Reversible by design
Shadow-branch PRs, one-click /undo.

Every change creates an auditable trail with instant rollback capability

Community-driven
Open source development with transparent roadmap and community input.

Built in the open with community feedback and contributions driving development

Proven outcomes

Real metrics from teams using Autonomy

< 3s

to next task

−50%

grooming time

≥ 85%

approval of edits

How it works

Seven steps to autonomous planning

Get started in minutes, scale to enterprise

01

Connect GitHub

Secure device-flow authentication with your GitHub account

02

Bootstrap board

Adds Priority, Pinned, Sprint, Track fields to your projects

03

Ask for work

/autonomy next via CLI or Slack integration

04

Update progress

autonomy update <id> --done --notes "Completed feature"

05

Control priority

Drag, change fields, or Pin to freeze; Autonomy respects and remembers

06

Undo anything

PR on autonomy/backlog-patch-<ts> + /autonomy undo <hash>

07

Learn patterns

Overrides → pattern miner → suggested team rules

Core features for autonomous planning

Open source architecture with GPLv3 license

Multi-queue ranking
Team queue + personal Actor queue with intelligent prioritization
Pin / Unpin
Persistent overrides that freeze rank and teach the system
Backlog Doctor
Stale / duplicate / oversize flags with automated cleanup suggestions
Shadow-branch PR + Undo
Every change creates a reviewable PR with one-click rollback
Metrics & insights
Time-to-task, approvals, planned-vs-done analytics
Open source security
Transparent, auditable code with GPLv3 license
Quickstart

Get started in under 5 minutes

Simple CLI commands to transform your GitHub workflow

Terminal Commands
$
pipx install autonomy

Install the CLI tool

$
autonomy auth

Device-flow authentication

$
autonomy board init

Creates Priority, Pinned, Sprint, Track fields

$
autonomy next

Get your next recommended task

$
autonomy update 123 --done --notes "Implemented endpoint"

Mark task complete with notes

$
autonomy pin 456

Freeze rank for important tasks

$
autonomy undo <hash>

One-click rollback of any change

Ready to contribute to the future of planning?

Join the open source community building the next generation of GitHub-native planning tools.

Open source • GPLv3 licensed • Fully auditable • Community driven