The Architecture: Why GitHub Is the Best Backbone for an AI Dev Team
Post 1 in the AI Software House series.
In short: Instead of building a new database or custom framework to run the AI team, I used GitHub itself — issues, branches, pull requests, and Actions — as the backbone. Agent behaviour lives in plain markdown files, not code, so anyone can read and change it. This design means adding a new agent takes minutes, not days.
Every multi-agent AI system needs to answer the same basic questions: where does state live, how do agents communicate, and how does a human stay in control without becoming a bottleneck?
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Most implementations reach for a new database, a custom orchestration layer, or a specialised agent framework. I did the opposite. I used GitHub.
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