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Humans decide. Machines operate.

Building software should not require becoming an infrastructure operator: humans express intent and authorize what matters, and agents do the repetitive technical work on infrastructure designed for them.

The position

Humans should decide. They should express intent, make judgments and authorize important decisions. Agents should handle the repetitive technical work. Stackap exists to give those agents an infrastructure platform designed for them, so that the person's attention goes to what to build and whether to ship it.

Four principles

Don't send the human to a setting.

If an operation can be a command, it is a command. A step that only exists as a switch in a web page is a step an agent cannot take.

Don't use the human as a courier between machines.

Copying a key from one dashboard into another is not judgment. Stackap keeps the pieces in one place so nothing has to be carried.

Don't make the human diagnose something the agent can inspect.

Build logs, runtime logs, health and metrics are readable by the same tools that deploy, so a failure can be understood without a person describing a screen.

If the agent has to guess, the documentation has a bug.

Documentation is part of the product. Gaps in it are defects, filed and fixed like any other.

Where people stay in the loop

Deploying to production, pointing a domain, rolling back and anything destructive remain a person's call. The aim is for those to be the only moments that need a person at all. Everything else is built to be done for you, and to be done the same way every time.

This is built into the platform, not left to good intentions. An agent holding an approval-mode token that tries a risky action, today deleting a project, is stopped with an approval_required answer. A link goes to the account owner by a separate channel, never through the API. The owner sees exactly that one action and approves or denies it. An approval covers only that exact request, works once, and expires after an hour, so an agent can neither reuse it nor nag for it.

Last updated 2026-10-03.