discern v1.1.0

Intelligence In Practice.

discern installs a disciplined engineering practice into your software project. You bring the vision, your agent writes the code, and your project gets better at being built.

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Any stack. Runs offline. No API key.

Works with your coding agent

Claude Code
Codex
Gemini
Cursor
GitHub Copilot

Set the direction.

Keep your decisions and expectations in the project, where your coding agents can put them to work.

Let more work move.

Give each task its own space, so several agents can move different parts of your project forward.

Know what’s ready.

Review work with evidence from your project's own checks. You decide what ships.

Two kinds of intelligence. One shared project.

Designed to improve the way humans and agents work together, discern installs a collaborative engineering practice into any software project.

You decide what "quality" means for your project. discern encodes your taste and judgment into the project's configuration, then teaches every future agent how to put it to work.

Your agent operates discern day-to-day. discern helps them write better code, work safely in parallel, and continually improve the project's quality over time.

Your project becomes a more reliable place for agents to work. Every change is deterministically proven to meet your standards. discern gives you the confidence to ship high-quality changes faster than ever.

Designed for people who ship serious software.

If you've only ever built software through a coding agent, discern is easy-to-use and requires no previous coding experience. When people start depending on your work, discern provides the engineering discipline so you can ship it with confidence.

Or if you're an experienced engineer using agents to write more code than you can keep up with, discern lets you scale your ambition even further. Direct more work with less oversight, preserve your expertise across models and providers, and run complex workstreams in parallel.

Built around the way agents work.

Most developer tools assume a person at the keyboard. discern takes a different approach, by treating your coding agent as its day-to-day operator.

Most of what discern does happens out of sight. It operates quietly in the background, guiding your agent to make the right decisions for your project, throughout the entire software development lifecycle.

discern teaches your agent everything they need to know about your project, at the time they need to know about it. That means they don't fill up their context window re-learning the basics. It provides precise, bounded hints, guiding your agent to take the right action. If something fails, discern tells your agent how to fix it. And every response includes a clear next step for the agent to take.

Build in parallel with isolated workspaces.

Every change takes place in an isolated worktree. Several agents can build at once without tripping over each other. discern takes care of creating, syncing, and tidying each workspace automatically.

Trust the process.

Don't just take their word for it. discern gives you and your agent Proof: a deterministic guarantee that the project's checks passed, tied to the exact commit they passed on.

Things can only get better.

When a quality measure improves, your project can lock in the gain. Later changes can't lower it, preventing regressions from sneaking back in.

You decide what ships.

discern's practice lets you stay focused on what actually matters to your project. discern empowers your agents to work more autonomously, but nothing gets landed or shipped without your consent.

Zero-configuration setup.

Simply tell your coding agent to set up discern in your project. That's it. discern guides your agent step-by-step, analyzing the project and showing them how to wire up the right checks, before verifying everything works.