Docs · v0.3.0

Build software while you're away.

A developer in a terminal can't close the lid and come back to a pull request. Olwen can.

Most "AI coding" still means *you*, in a chat, watching every step. Dev Studio flips it: you give Olwen a goal in plain words, and he manages Claude Code — the real engine, running on your own subscription — to actually do it. You can watch, or you can walk away.

Olwen orchestrates Claude Code

Tell Olwen what you want the way you'd brief a teammate — typos and all. He interprets it into a clear engineering task ("improve fppter design" → "find the footer component and redesign it to match the site, then verify the build"), drives the Claude Code session, reads the result, and steers it to completion. The managing brain is a tiny, cheap model; the heavy lifting is Claude Code on your subscription. Olwen is the manager, not the worker.

Give a goal, walk away, get a PR

Queue a goal and flip Run while away. Olwen runs it on the server — so you can close the tab — and the work lands as a pull request:

Jobs run in parallel, each on its own fresh branch. You come back to pull requests, not to a screen you had to babysit.

It asks you — only when it must

When a job hits a real decision it can't make safely, it doesn't guess and it doesn't spin. It goes "needs you", asks a single clear question, and waits. Your reply — in the app or over WhatsApp — resumes the very same Claude Code session and finishes the work. No lost context, no starting over.

Guardrails — autonomy you can trust

Unattended work has to be safe by construction. Every job runs behind a guard that inspects each command and blocks anything irreversible or outward-facing:

• pushing to a remote or to main
• deploying, publishing, releasing
• rm -rf, hard resets, sudo, ssh, database drops

Olwen does the one sanctioned outward action himself: push to a branch and open a PR. Nothing lands on main without your merge — even in fully autonomous mode.

"An autonomous teammate you can trust isn't one that can do anything. It's one that knows what to never do without asking."

For people who don't read terminals

Dev Studio has an Activity view that narrates the work in plain language — "Looking at the site footer", "Building the project", "Saving the changes" — and a live preview of the actual app as it changes. A founder or designer can give Olwen a goal and simply watch their thing get built, no terminal required.

Olwen is source-available on GitHub under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0. Read the v0.3.0 changelog, or how Olwen uses your computer.

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