Use it
Start from the task you want to accomplish; start ad hoc or from a self-contained GitHub Change Issue.
An explicitly invoked soft autopilot for AI coding
One Action at a time—investigate facts, clarify real decisions, implement, review read-only, and recover while the user stays in control.
Slipway is a user-invoked soft autopilot for AI coding. A host writes the code; Slipway records each Run, chooses the next Action, observes Git independently, and stores recoverable state. The Run engine calls no model and does not access GitHub; the separate doctor command may invoke local gh for read-only diagnostics. Slipway does not store model or GitHub credentials.
One Run advances one versioned Action at a time: orient → clarify when needed → implement → review when enabled and code changed → summarize. Every Action can be skipped, a Run can stop and resume, Review never edits code, and ended means only that the automatic queue is empty.
Look up exact surfaces
The seven user commands, the public protocol machine-interface group, ten host adapters, and the versioned contract for integrators.
Commands · Protocol v2 tutorial · Machine protocol · Adapters
Understand and contribute
Concepts, architecture, and contributor checks.