Define the assignment
Name the outcome, evidence, budget, and rules for the run.
Give Northstar the job. Keep the final say.
Northstar coordinates durable assignments across Northstar Life, Northstar Work, and Northstar Build—with important actions held for your approval. Start with software delivery through Northstar Build, or partner with us on the next governed workflow.
A team reviewing the evidence and approval state of an autonomous assignmentNorthstar
The control plane for accountable autonomous work.
Northstar Build is where that model works today: durable software assignments, isolated execution, explicit review, and evidence at the handoff.
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Issues in. Tested draft pull requests out.
Northstar Build works from eligible issues, follows repository-owned instructions, operates in an isolated workspace, and returns validation evidence with the handoff.
- GitHub Issues and Jira as durable work sources.
- Repository context, workflow rules, and scoped credentials.
- Continuation across attempts without losing the assignment.
- Human review before changes leave the approved workflow.
A software team reviewing an isolated Northstar Build assignment
Define the work. Keep the authority.
Northstar keeps the outcome, rules, state, and evidence attached to one durable assignment, even when execution takes more than one attempt.
Review the route
See the planned steps, required access, and approval points before execution.
Keep authority visible
Safe work continues while consequential actions wait for an accountable reviewer.
Verify the outcome
Review the deliverable with run history, checks, costs, and evidence.
Safe work moves. Consequential actions wait.
Plans, access, budgets, approvals, retries, and evidence stay visible around the work. Reviewers can see what happened before deciding what happens next.
Scoped access
Visible budgets
Evidence included
Needs review
Approve draft pull request handoff
- What happens
- Create a draft PR from the validated assignment
- Repository
- Configured project workspace
- Checks
- Repository validation completed
- Evidence
- Linked to the assignment run history
- Authority
- Team review remains required before merge
Northstar Build assignments
Define done. Get the evidence.
Issue delivery
Fix the reported defect, run the repository checks, and prepare a draft pull request.
Reviewable changes, validation evidence, execution history, and a draft PR.
Design-partner pilots
Bring the next governed workflow.
These are workflows we want to validate with partners. They are not packaged capabilities presented as available today.
Engineering operations
Validate release coordination and operational assignments that must survive handoffs, retries, and review gates.
Security remediation
Test evidence-backed remediation workflows where access is narrow and consequential changes require approval.
Change management
Explore cross-system change workflows with explicit owners, staged decisions, and a durable execution record.
Evidence-backed research
Develop research assignments that preserve sources, caveats, decisions, and reviewer authority.
A strong pilot starts with recurring work, a named owner, clear approval points, and evidence the team needs to trust the result.
Apply for a design-partner pilotBring Northstar the work that needs an owner.
Apply with a recurring engineering, security, or operations workflow where approvals, recovery, and evidence matter.