The agents keep the work; the person keeps the word.

Introduction

Ticket systems were built for people handing work to people. shoalmark is built for your agents: the work lives in your repository, no “done” gets through without a commit behind it, and what waits for your word comes first.

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Get a better-performing human Owner. Agents do not wait for tools. They wait for their human. Asked what slows them most, three independent agents gave the same answer, by a wide margin: the Owner's unanswered questions — one question, open three days, held three packages. And where the human does keep up, they keep up by not reading: in the repository this tool came from, 200 pull requests were merged in 22 days, 85 % of them less than a minute after opening, none with a review. Blocking and stamping have one root — a person asked for many small decisions in the middle of the work.