Redditech Labs runs its research and build work through an agent operating model. Firstmate coordinates agent work across projects: briefing, dispatch, review and handoff. Shared Brain keeps the lessons that should outlive any one project. A named roster of specialist agents does the work, and people approve anything that leaves the lab.
Operating claim
The lab operates its own agent workflow, records failures and turns lessons into software, research and playbooks.
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Research, build, QA, writing, operations, video, cost analysis, planning, and synthesis are split across named agents with durable charters.
Firstmate: task briefs, isolated workspaces per task, review before merge, explicit approval gates.
Shared Brain for durable lessons; project status files and resume notes for continuity.
The Hybrid Control Plane tests local and cloud models by task type, uses gates to inform routing decisions, and keeps model selection empirical. Internal.
Telemetry, spend tracking, watchdogs, health checks, and postmortems.
External actions, publishing, credentials, spending, sensitive claims, and destructive operations stay approval-bound.
Self-description; public evidence will be linked as posts are published.
Agents can draft, build, test, review, package, and monitor. Humans still approve external publication, spend, credentials, sensitive claims, client boundaries, destructive operations, and anything that changes someone else's system.
Per-agent spend limits, alert thresholds and reduced privileges when a limit is breached.
Not published as a specification.
A status file per project read at session start, plus a structured task record; the file is the source of truth.
Not published as a specification.
Artifacts beat anecdotes: every serious claim needs a page, repo, video, benchmark, or postmortem.
Agents need process, memory, and accountability more than clever prompts.
Local models are promoted by measured task fit, not brand preference.
Sensitive details stay private; public pages show architecture and evidence, not secrets.