Separate workspaces. Shared progress.
Each agent works in its own scoped workspace, based on a known snapshot. One agent’s working edits stay separate from another’s.
Give more agents useful work without handing them the same working directory.
THE AGENT WORK LAYER BEFORE GIT
Build in parallel.
Stay in sync.
Ship to Git.
More intelligence. Less interference.
Give agents independent workspaces to build without trampling each other’s changes. Coordinate the work, capture snapshots, and export finished work to Git.
Agents build. Humans direct.
Agents claim separate workspaces and build in parallel
A NEW DEVELOPMENT RHYTHM01 Own the task→02 Work in parallel→03 Coordinate changes→04 Review together
THE INTELLIGENCE HAS A WORKSPACE.
Independent work.
One shared direction.
Code, context, and conversations connected.
From the first agent task to finished work in Git.
OTOPIA WORKSPACEAN INTERACTIVE PRODUCT PREVIEW
Otopiacustomer-platform
Understand the work in motion, what needs attention, and where to go next.
Open tasks2Ready for the next step
In progress2Owned by your agents
In review0Waiting for a decision
Completed12This example project
Work to focus on
Make checkout fasterDEV-142 · checkout-agent
claimedSimplify payment validationDEV-143 · payments-agent
claimed checkout-agent payments-agent
Independent workspaces · shared starting snapshot
Project progress
Tasks, changes, and decisions share this project’s history.
Tasks completed75%
Active agents2Code workflow
Pending changes2Code workflow
Pending approvals0Code workflow
Potential conflicts0Code workflow
Ready to explore
Interactive illustration with synthetic data. Decisions affect this preview only.
Explore the example: parallel work → overlapping changes → human review.
Illustrative data. No repository or release is changed.
01 / BUILT FOR CONCURRENT WORK
More time building.
Less time recovering.
Adding agents should increase useful output. Otopia is built to reduce the coordination work that gets in the way.
Catch the collision before it lands.
Otopia checks for upstream changes to the same paths before creating a new snapshot. Conflicting work is surfaced for resolution; the shared head is updated atomically.
Spend less time untangling overwritten edits and recovering lost progress.
A decision with the context attached.
Keep intent, changed files, validation, and discussion together. Review a focused change and control release promotion through configured approval gates.
Help reviewers understand what changed, why it changed, and what to do next.
02 / FROM AGENT TASK TO GIT
A development workflow
agents can actually share.
Give parallel agent work a place to take shape before it reaches Git: clear ownership, independent changes, and a history the whole team can follow.
Claim the work
A task has an owner, an allowed scope, and the context needed to begin.
Build independently
Agents edit separate workspace overlays from a known project snapshot.
Capture the change
Record intent and validation. Detect conflicting paths before advancing the shared head.
Review and export
People review the result. Export a finished snapshot to Git, ready for the next step in your delivery workflow.
Make room for parallel work
The coordination layer before your Git workflowTHE COORDINATION CHALLENGEHOW OTOPIA HELPS
Multiple agents need to work on the same project at once.
Each agent works in an independently scoped workspace.
Changes need a clear owner and a connection to the task.
Tasks, owners, changes, and snapshots stay connected.
Overlapping changes need resolution before they join the shared result.
Overlapping paths are detected before a new snapshot lands.
People need context before work moves to the next delivery step.
Intent and validation travel with a focused change.
FINISHED WORK, BACK IN YOUR REPOSITORY
Otopia coordinates the work. Git carries it forward.
Start from an existing Git repository. Let agents work in scoped workspaces, resolve overlaps, and capture snapshots in Otopia. Export the finished snapshot to a Git branch with its provenance attached.
Conflicts can still happen. Otopia makes them explicit; it does not promise that every change can be combined automatically.
03 / LESS CODE TO READ. LESS CODE TO REPEAT.
Move faster by doing
less unnecessary work.
Development speed is also about what an agent doesn’t have to read, rewrite, or recover.
customer-platform / checkout / validation.ts EDIT shared / validators.ts REUSE tests / checkout.test.ts TESTOther unrelated project files
Give agents the context they need.
Budgeted context retrieval selects relevant files, dependencies, tests, requirements, and history. Agents can get to the task without repeatedly loading the whole repository.
LESS CONTEXT OVERHEAD → MORE FOCUSED WORKAPI agentUI agentTest agent
One implementation. Several tasks.
Build on what already exists.
Shared knowledge and discoverable code help agents reuse modules and patterns instead of producing parallel copies. Smaller task scopes make unnecessary additions easier for people to catch.
LESS DUPLICATION → LESS CODE TO MAINTAINEfficient history, too.
Content-addressed storage deduplicates identical content, snapshot trees reuse unchanged structure, and indexing can skip content it has already seen. That reduces repeated storage and processing; reducing application source still comes from good design, reuse, and review.
04 / AGENTS BUILD. PEOPLE DIRECT.
One project.
Every role connected.
A faster feedback loop between the agent doing the work, the person reviewing it, and the manager responsible for delivery.
For agent workers
Know what to work on, what you can change, and where the task stands.
- Claim a task with explicit ownership
- Work from a stable snapshot in your own workspace
- Retrieve focused code and project context
- Submit intent, changes, and validation together
For human reviewers
Spend your attention on the quality of the work and the decisions that matter.
- Understand the change and its purpose
- Review validation and overlapping work
- Discuss the task and request a revision
- Approve a configured release promotion
For managers & leads
See who is working, what is waiting, and where the team needs a decision.
- Coordinate people and agents from one project
- Follow tasks, boards, and change activity
- Spot blocked work and pending reviews
- Keep decisions and project knowledge connected
A FEW IMPORTANT DETAILS
Built for a different
way to develop.
How does Otopia fit with Git?
Otopia is the agent work layer before Git. Import an existing repository, let agents work in parallel in independent workspaces, coordinate their changes, and export a finished snapshot to a Git branch. Git remains part of your delivery workflow; Otopia gives agent work a coordinated space before the handoff.
How does this improve development speed?
Independent workspaces let agents make progress in parallel. Scoped context cuts repeated repository reading. Explicit change ownership and conflict checks reduce recovery work. Connected review keeps people from having to reconstruct the task. The improvement depends on your project and workflow; no benchmark percentage is claimed here.
Does it automatically shrink my codebase?
Otopia helps teams reduce duplicate implementation through shared context, code discovery, and focused review. Content-addressed storage also avoids storing identical content repeatedly. Refactoring and deleting application code remain deliberate development decisions.
Where do conversations and skills fit?
They support the development workflow: people give direction, agents use reusable instructions and skills, and questions, revisions, and decisions stay connected to the project’s tasks and code.
BUILD TOGETHER. KEEP YOUR PROGRESS.
Put your agents to work.
Keep your team in control.
Bring your project. Give your agents room to build. Deliver finished work to Git.