Agents can make the calls. Igni connects the decisions and constraints your team owns to the code and agents they affect. When reality pushes back, the choice surfaces without stopping the work.
01 The work pushes back.
A concrete tradeoff surfaces while the coding agent keeps building.
Their hardest calls are not mistakes. They are reasonable local choices that change what the rest of the system can assume. Once those choices land in code, they become precedent for every developer and agent that follows — before they become team decisions.
Keep your reviewers. Review asks whether this change should merge. Igni asks whether the work challenged a decision the rest of the system relies on — and what every affected agent should build from now.
When the work and the decision pull apart, Igni surfaces the choice. The code may change. The decision may change. The work keeps moving.
One consequential call
A coding agent finds a better local answer — and a checkout constraint pushes the other way. Igni keeps both cases visible while the work continues. Here's what happens next.
Intent Graph
Your coding agents keep working in their own tools. Before a line gets written, Igni hands them the brief: the target, the constraints, the decisions, the patterns that shape this exact piece of work.
Assembled from the graph, current as of the last call your team made: connected intent, not a note in an agent's memory.
A brief is intent's opening position, not its final word.
Without it: every run guesses what matters.
Intent Loop
In this run, line-item events would improve relevance. They would also put enrichment on the checkout path, where a standing constraint protects latency. Both sides are reasonable. The choice surfaces inside the work.
The finding stays distinct from the standing call while the coding agent keeps building.
Without it: the work can't tell you what it hit.
Intent Stage
Your team and the Igni agent shape the same intent at once, live in the same documents. The agent is in the room, not dispatched.
Conversation is the capture: the Igni agent turns the call into a proposal, connected where it belongs. A finding is not a decision. A proposal is not the record.
Resolve it now, keep it deliberately open, or gather more evidence. The coding agent continues; standing intent changes only when an owner makes the call.
The agent keeps moving. Standing intent changes deliberately.
Without it: judgment either blocks the work or arrives after it ships.
Intent Graph
Igni connects product goals to the features and code that realize them, so the call lands next to everything it affects.
Change intent or code, and Igni recomputes the work it touches, like a build system. Affected work builds from the owned resolution. The call is made once, not quietly re-decided by every run after.
Without it: plans go stale the moment code learns something.
That's the loop: senior attention can follow genuinely novel calls — not every run or diff. Every pass starts further ahead, from everything you've shaped and settled.
Keeping a spec current is not the same as deciding what every workstream may rely on. Igni keeps the owner, scope, and affected work connected to the call.
Run the Intent Audit on your own repo: five questions against your agent-shipped PRs. Start with one; thirty makes a baseline. We ran it on ours first. It wasn't flattering.
Git for code. Igni for intent.
Read the full argument (9 min) →Point Igni at your codebase. In our runs, thirty minutes later you're looking at your own graph: about fifty nodes, built from real code structure.
Your team curates what should guide the work: which constraints have force, where they apply, and who owns them. The first value isn't documentation. It's making the hidden tensions in active work visible.
The Charter Program
An eight-week paid live deployment: one product area, your existing coding agents, measured outcomes.
Founder-led, with weekly working sessions run by Igni founder Ben Werther.
The teams that win with agents are the ones that can safely hand them more.