Centaur

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Centaur is a governed agentic delivery platform built by AgentsAndPencils — the AI-native operating model for software delivery. Named after the chess centaur concept, where human and machine working together outperform either alone, Centaur gives any business a fully staffed agent factory under human direction: eight specialist agents covering every stage of the software delivery lifecycle, from architectural design through to production deployment, governed at every step. A named Chief of Staff agent Terence orchestrates the team, maintains persistent memory, and routes every task through quality gates and multi-model peer review before anything ships. Real-time Mission Control gives the human operator complete visibility across every project and pipeline. The result is AI-native delivery speed with a full audit trail, anomaly detection, and zero loss of context built for businesses that want to move faster without losing control. You bring the idea. Centaur makes it real.

Stack Used

Centaur stack: AI / Agents • Claude Sonnet (orchestration — Terence) • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B local via Ollama (engineering — Nic) • Claude Haiku (researcher, content — Scott, Quill) • Multi-model Council: GPT-4o + Gemini 2.5 Pro + Claude Runtime • OpenClaw (agent gateway, cron, session management, Slack) • Mac Mini M4 48GB (local inference + compute) • Tailscale (secure remote access) Delivery • Claude Code (coding agent execution) • GitHub (repos, PRs, branch protection) • Git post-commit hooks → Governance Feed Observability • Custom Governance Feed (GF-1 to GF-5) — SQLite event store, WebSocket broadcast • Lead Canvas / Mission Control (Next.js + React) • Anomaly detection, health metrics, handoff reports Web • Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind • Firebase Hosting Data Platforms (separate products built using Centaur) • Databricks (Blueprint) • Microsoft Fabric (Schemata) Comms • Slack (primary command channel)