1
See what it is doing without sitting in front of it
Handing a job to an agent does not actually free you up. It works for a few minutes, then needs something only you can give it — a decision, a permission, an answer. Miss that moment and it stops dead until you come back. So you stay at the desk watching a window scroll, for work you were told you could delegate.
Stibe runs quietly on your computer and puts everything it is doing behind a single web page. The projects it knows about, the jobs in flight, what each one is doing right now, and what it is waiting for. That page comes from your machine rather than from anybody else’s, so pulling it up on a phone across your private network is no different from pulling it up where it runs.
You can leave the room. The work carries on without you, and the moment it needs you it is one glance at a phone away rather than a walk back to the keyboard to find out whether anything happened.
2
Every question waiting on you, in one list
An agent that asks before it acts is the one you want, but the asking is where the time goes. Each question surfaces wherever that particular job happens to be running, and none of them move until somebody answers. Once more than one thing is on the go you spend your day working out which of them has stopped, and why.
Stibe gathers every point that needs a person into one list per project. Each entry shows what was asked, which job it belongs to, and the choices if there are any. You answer straight from the list — pick one of the options, or write a reply in your own words — and that job picks up where it left off.
The gap between being asked and answering stops being an hour of something sitting idle. You work through the list when it suits you, and nothing is quietly stalled because you had no way of knowing to look.
3
Settle what gets built before anything gets built
The usual way this goes is that you describe roughly what you want and something starts being written immediately. It looks like progress. Days later you find a decision nobody ever made has been baked into a dozen files, and the only record of how it got there is a conversation transcript nobody wants to reread.
Stibe does the thinking first. Your description becomes a plan: who the software is for, the separate pieces it is made of, and what each piece has to do. That plan is an ordinary document. You can read it, argue with it and edit it, and it stays the thing the work is measured against rather than scrolling away up a chat window.
You find out you disagree while it is still a sentence, which is the cheapest moment there will ever be. And when you come back in six months wondering why some part of it works the way it does, the reasoning is written down instead of gone.
4
You are the gate at every stage
Give a capable agent a large instruction and it will keep going. It makes the small calls, then the medium ones, and it does not pause to check because pausing was not what you asked for. The first real opening to object arrives when the thing is finished, which is exactly when objecting is most expensive.
Stibe splits a job into stages and puts a gate at each one. A piece of work is proposed, and waits. Approve it and what it should do gets written up, and waits again. Only once you approve that does anything get built. Each of those is a deliberate stop rather than a notification you can scroll past.
You steer at the points where steering is easy. Nothing substantial is ever built on top of an assumption you never agreed to, and the answer to “why is it doing that?” is a decision you remember making, because the work stopped and asked you for it.
5
Several pieces built at once, without them colliding
One thing at a time is a hard ceiling on how fast any of this goes. The obvious answer is to run several at once, and it usually creates a worse problem than it solves, because they are all editing the same files and the first sign of trouble is two of them having undone each other.
Stibe hands every piece of work its own copy of the project on its own branch. They run alongside each other and physically cannot touch each other’s files. When one finishes you read an account of what it did, and it merges into the main line of the project only when you accept it.
Three or four things can be underway at the same time and stay properly separate. When one of them goes badly you throw that copy away and the others are untouched, so a bad run costs you one job instead of an afternoon spent untangling everything.
6
Talk to it, and it answers out loud
The moments when you can think most clearly about a project are often the moments you cannot type. Walking, driving, doing something else with your hands. And the ordinary way to talk to software is to send a recording of your voice to a company that keeps it, which is a poor trade for work you have not made public yet.
Stibe listens and speaks for itself. Your speech becomes text, and its replies become speech, done by software sitting alongside everything else it runs, without a single call out to anyone. You can hear the question an agent is stuck on and settle it out loud.
A decision that would have waited until you got home gets made on the walk. And because none of it goes anywhere, what you say about a client’s system or an idea you have not announced stays exactly where you said it.
Everything described here runs on the machine you install it on. There is no account to create, no server of ours anywhere in the path, and no subscription.