The build loop
The build loop is the engine of Typillar. It’s the same sequence every time, which is what makes the system predictable: you always know where a request is, what’s been decided, and what happens next.
The five stages
Section titled “The five stages”1. Intent
Section titled “1. Intent”You describe an outcome in plain language. Intent can be a whole product (“a link-in-bio site”) or an increment to an existing one (“add a contact form that emails me”). You never have to express it as a ticket — that’s the agent’s job.
2. Proposal
Section titled “2. Proposal”The product-manager agent converts intent into a ticket: a concrete, scoped, named unit of work with a short rationale. Proposals are where ambiguity is resolved — the agent makes the implicit explicit so you’re approving a specific thing. See Tickets & approvals.
3. Approval
Section titled “3. Approval”You approve (or decline) the ticket. This is a hard gate: no code is generated, no resource is created, and nothing is deployed until you approve. Approval is how you control direction, cost, and timing.
4. Build
Section titled “4. Build”Builder agents implement the ticket:
- Generate the code, using inference that runs on your side (Models & API keys).
- Provision what the feature needs on your Cloudflare account — a database, a Durable Object, a scheduled trigger.
- Commit the source to your GitHub repository as ordinary commits.
5. Ship
Section titled “5. Ship”The build is deployed to a live URL on your Cloudflare account and recorded in the project history. From the moment it ships it is reversible — see Deploys & rollback.
Why the gate matters
Section titled “Why the gate matters”The approval gate between Proposal and Build is the most important line in the loop. It keeps an autonomous system from running ahead of you: agents can propose freely and continuously, but they only act on what you’ve approved. That’s what makes “always-on agents” safe to leave on.
The loop has a memory
Section titled “The loop has a memory”Each pass leaves a durable trail — an approved ticket, commits, a deployment. Because that history persists, the PM agent can reason about what already exists and propose sensible next steps, and you can always trace how the product got to its current state. The loop doesn’t just produce output; it builds a record.
Related
Section titled “Related”- What you own — where each stage physically runs.
- Agents & the control plane — who does the work.