Agents
Lithify's agents are the people-shaped helpers in the system. Each one has a specific job — filter spam, rewrite a brief, write code, send mail. You assign work to them the same way you'd assign work to a teammate; they do the job and the brief moves on.
Agents show up as members in your project, alongside humans. Workflow rules can route briefs to them automatically, or you can hand a brief to one yourself with the Assign dropdown.
The four built-in agents
Flagging agent
First touch on every brief. Decides whether the rest of the pipeline should bother — legit, spam, or a manipulation attempt.
Read moreRefining agent
Rewrites the title and description, classifies the brief, suggests labels and an assignee, and gives a confidence score the workflow can act on.
Read moreCoding agent
Branches your repo, makes the change, and opens a pull request. Managed by Lithify — nothing to install, no worker to run.
Read moreMailer agent
Sends an email about the brief from a prompt you write. Useful for paging QA, replying to submitters, or keeping a stakeholder in the loop.
Read moreHow an agent runs
Something assigns the brief to the agent — usually a workflow rule, sometimes you do it manually.
The agent does its job. Anything it produces (a verdict, a rewrite, a PR link, an email) is recorded on the brief's timeline.
Workflow rules look at what the agent produced and decide what happens next — promote, route, notify, cancel.
The brief either lands somewhere new (a state, an assignee) or stays put waiting for a human to look at it.
Configuring an agent
Each agent lives under Project → Agents. Open one to set its model, adjust thresholds, write its prompt (for the mailer), or hand it a different API key. Most projects don't need to touch the defaults — they're tuned for the common case.
One important rule
Agents never decide where a brief goes next. They only do their job and leave a record. The workflow is the part that decides — promote on high confidence, hand bugs to the coding agent, page QA on critical issues. Keeping these two separate means the brain (the agents) and the rules (the workflow) can change independently.