The Operating Layer for Autonomous Development

Telesis is a development intelligence platform that captures design intent, tracks progress, detects drift, and orchestrates the full development lifecycle — the feedback and control system around autonomous coding agents.

Quick Start Core Concepts

What Telesis Does

A coordinated system of specialized agents that steer autonomous development toward the goal.

Design Intent

Spec-Driven Development

Start with an AI-powered interview that captures your vision, requirements, and architecture. Telesis generates living documents that keep agents aligned across sessions and milestones.

AI-powered project interview
Living design documents
Vision & architecture capture
Milestone planning

Project Initialization

Quality Gates

Drift Detection & Code Review

Multi-perspective code review with persona-based consensus and drift detection that keeps implementation aligned with intent — not just linting, but spec alignment.

Multi-LLM consensus
Persona-based review
Spec drift detection
Dismissal management

Orchestration

Full Lifecycle Orchestration

From work item to shipped code — automated pipelines with human-in-the-loop gates, agent dispatch with oversight, and a deterministic state machine that manages the entire development lifecycle.

Automated pipelines
Human approval gates
Agent dispatch & oversight
Session resumability

The Orchestrator

Documentation

Getting Started

Installation — Install Telesis and verify it works
Quick Start — Initialize your first project in five minutes
Core Concepts — The mental model behind Telesis

Using Telesis

Project Initialization — The AI-powered interview and what it produces
Code Review — Multi-perspective review with personas, dismissals, and convergence
Drift Detection — Keeping implementation aligned with intent
Work Intake & Planning — Importing work items and decomposing them into plans
The Full Pipeline — From work item to committed code
Milestones — Validation gates and milestone lifecycle
Development Notes & Journal — Lightweight memory tools
The Daemon — Background process, event backbone, and live monitoring
Agent Dispatch — Running coding agents with oversight
The Orchestrator — Automated lifecycle from work item to shipped milestone

Reference

CLI Reference — Every command, flag, and option
Configuration Reference — Complete config.yml documentation
Event Reference — All event types emitted by the daemon
Project Structure — What Telesis creates and where it lives

Advanced Topics

Oversight & Observers — Autonomous review, architecture, and chronicler agents
GitHub Integration — PR comments, issue management, and dismissal sync
MCP Server — Exposing Telesis to Claude Code and other MCP clients
Telemetry & Cost Tracking — Understanding model usage and cost
ADRs & TDDs — Architectural decision records and technical design documents
Context Generation — How CLAUDE.md works and why it matters