Chillax

chill + relax. You are the stakeholder. Chillax runs the company.

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Chillax is a terminal-first manager for an AI product team. You don't babysit a coding agent. You hire a team of them: a project manager, developers, a tech lead and QA. They plan, build, review, test and release, the way a real software company does. You make the calls that matter: approve the sprint, answer questions, approve the release.

Source coming soon. Chillax is in active development and the code is private while a few rough edges get fixed. This repository is the public home until then. Star or watch it to hear when the source opens up.

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Why

Coding agents are good at writing code. Running one on its own still leaves you to do the job of a whole company: planning, splitting the work, reviewing, testing, deciding what ships. Chillax gives those jobs to agents with clear roles and puts gates where a human should decide.

How it works

 You (stakeholder)
   │  chat
   ▼
 Project Manager ──► epics, stories, acceptance criteria, a proposed sprint
   │
   ▼
 ┌───────────────┐
 │ Sprint gate   │  nothing starts until you approve
 └───────────────┘
   │
   ▼
 Developers ──► one git worktree + branch per ticket ──► tests run
   │
   ▼
 Tech Lead review ──► merge to `dev`
   │
   ▼
 QA ──► promote `dev` → `qa`, test against acceptance criteria, file bugs or sign off
   │
   ▼
 ┌───────────────┐
 │ Release gate  │  nothing ships without you
 └───────────────┘
   │
   ▼
 `qa` → `main`, tagged, with release notes

A real company	In Chillax
Stakeholder	You
Job description	A role file: a system prompt plus a policy
Employee	A hired coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Command Code, …)
Jira	A built-in local tracker: epics, stories, bugs, sprints
Dev / QA / Prod	Git branches, worktrees and your project's own commands
Company handbook	Chillax's MCP tools, which agents use to follow the process

The pieces

• Hire anyone. Each employee is an existing coding agent, driven over the Agent Client Protocol. Choose the agent and model per hire. Chillax doesn't rebuild a coding agent. It manages them.
• Plan with your PM. Describe what you want. The PM writes epics and stories with acceptance criteria and proposes a sprint.
• The dev loop. Each ticket gets its own worktree and branch. A developer builds it, Chillax runs your tests, and a Tech Lead reviews the diff. Approved work merges into dev in a separate worktree, so your own checkout is never touched.
• QA and the bug loop. QA tests each ticket against its acceptance criteria. Bugs go back to developers as tickets.
• An inbox for you. Permission requests, questions, the sprint approval and the release approval all wait for you in one place.
• Watch it live. The same views in the terminal and in the browser: dashboard, team, chat, board, a live feed of every agent's tool calls, environments, inbox, and token usage per ticket.
• Pause, quit, resume. Every change is an event in a local log. Quit at any time. When you come back, the team, chats, tickets and inbox are rebuilt where you left them.

The honest trade-off

Chillax plans heavily, so it uses more tokens and time than handing one prompt to one agent. In return you get structure. Every piece of work has a ticket, the reasoning is in its comments, and nothing reaches main without you.

Status

Chillax is an MVP. Planning, hiring, the sprint gate, the autonomous dev loop, QA rounds, the bug loop and the release gate all work in code and are covered by end-to-end tests. Real-agent runs have taken a project from the PM's plan to a tagged release, as the walkthrough shows. Some steps still need a stakeholder's nudge.

Next on the list: more tracker adapters (Jira, GitHub), more verified agent backends, themes and plugins, and hardening work such as budgets and crash recovery.

Demos

• 45-second ad
• Full walkthrough (5 min): setup, planning with the PM, hiring, the sprint gate, the dev loop, the live view, QA, the release gate and the finished project. Captions are included as an .srt file.

Follow along

Star ⭐ or watch 👀 this repository to hear when the source is published. More at chillax.prayush.dev.

Support

Chillax is an independent project. If it's useful to you, or you want to see the source open sooner, you can sponsor the work on GitHub 💚.