Werkregie
Werkregie is to become the orchestrator for software development with AI agents: it shall start the coding agents, steer them through plan, code, build and review, and call the human only where a decision needs one.
So far it is mainly a dashboard.
The human still starts the agents and decides;
the dashboard shows what the agents, the build pipeline and the reviews are doing right now,
and where the human has to act.
A first piece of orchestration exists: werkregie-dashboard watch-pr tells a coding agent
when its pull request needs it.
The plan holds the orchestrator as the idea #orchestrator.
Werkregie defines the workflow of the Werk family. doc/agentic-workflow.md is the master copy of the agentic workflow that all Werk repositories follow: the roles of coding agent, review agent and human, the steps of a pull request, the review rounds, the plan, the versions and the writing style. A change goes into this copy first, then into each Werk repository with its next pull request.
The screenshot shows invented demo data; werkregie.javagil.de shows the same to any visitor without the access token.
The Dashboard
- Your turn: pull requests and messages that wait for the human, grouped by what they ask: stuck, approve, merge, rework, reply.
- Running now: Claude Code sessions, Codex threads and Werkator builds, with the resume command of a session.
- Pull requests of every Gitea instance, with Werkator's build and werkrevisor's verdict.
- Tasks assigned to the user in Taiga, messages from Matrix, the history of 24 hours.
- Journal: a Werkjournal import of each day's work, proposed from what the sources recorded.
- Load of the Werkator hosts and the review costs of werkrevisor.
- Installable as an app (PWA); offline it shows the last state.
It only reads and links back to the tools; it changes nothing in them. Details, modes and configuration: dashboard/README.md.
Connections
flowchart TB
subgraph machine["Machine with coding agents"]
claude["Claude Code"]
codex["Codex"]
relay["werkregie-dashboard<br/>relay"]
end
matrix["Matrix"]
gitea["Gitea"]
werkator["Werkator"]
werkrevisor["werkrevisor"]
taiga["Taiga"]
subgraph host["Host"]
server["werkregie-dashboard<br/>server"]
end
human(["Human<br/>browser or PWA"])
werkjournal["Werkjournal"]
claude -- "sessions" --> relay
codex -- "threads" --> relay
matrix -- "messages" --> relay
relay -- "HTTPS every 5 s,<br/>outgoing only" --> server
gitea -- "pull requests,<br/>statuses" --> server
werkator -- "builds, load" --> server
werkrevisor -- "review costs" --> server
taiga -- "tasks" --> server
server -- "page, with the<br/>access token" --> human
human -. "daily import" .-> werkjournal
The arrows show the flow of data; the dashboard only reads. The relay runs where the agents run, because their state lies on that machine. It opens outgoing connections only, also for the Matrix sync; nothing connects to the machine from outside. The Matrix client runs in the relay, so that the device keys stay on the user's machine.
Without a host, the mode local reads everything on one machine and serves it on 127.0.0.1.
doc/system-architektur.md shows how all Werk tools work together, in German.
The Werk Family
The Werk family is a set of tools for software development with AI agents, each in a repository of its own. All of them follow the workflow that Werkregie defines.
| Tool | Role |
|---|---|
| Werkbaum | plans as a text notation; each repository keeps its plan in it |
| Werkator | CI/CD for Gitea on a Hostsharing Managed Webspace |
| Werkdock | container runtime without root, for Testcontainers in Werkator |
| werkrevisor | AI review of each pull request, run as a Werkator build |
| Werkcrappit | mutation CRAP metric as a Gradle and PIT plugin |
| Werkjournal | time records; takes the dashboard's daily import |
| Werkregie | dashboard and the workflow of the family; later the orchestrator |
Quick Start
Requires a JDK; Gradle fetches Temurin 25 through Foojay.
cd dashboard
./gradlew installDist
build/install/werkregie-dashboard/bin/werkregie-dashboard # → http://localhost:4747/
Without a configuration it shows the Claude Code and Codex sessions of this machine; dashboard.example.yml adds Werkator, Gitea and the other sources.
Documents
| File | Content |
|---|---|
| doc/agentic-workflow.md | the workflow of all Werk repositories, master copy |
| doc/werkregie.werkbaum | the plan: what runs, what comes next |
| doc/system-architektur.md | how the Werk tools work together |
| doc/adrs/ | decisions |
| doc/prs/ | one document per pull request |
| AGENTS.md | instructions for coding agents |