Getting started

A product is one pipeline: a codebase, the signals feeding it (crash reports, analytics drop-offs, your own ideas), and the board that tracks work from idea to shipped.

Create a product

Creating a product walks you through a five-step wizard:

1. Define — name the product and describe the idea.
2. Brand — optional primary/accent colors the agent uses when it designs UI.
3. Repo — connect the GitHub repository the agent will work in.
4. Monitoring — connect Sentry (or another signal source) so crashes and errors turn into board tasks automatically.
5. Agent — choose how the agent builds: on a connected computer or hosted, and whether it builds fully autonomously.

When it’s done, you land on the board with your first tasks ready to triage.

Fill in the details from your repo

In Settings → Product → Product details, the “Fill from repo” button reads your codebase and drafts the product description and target audience for you, so you don’t have to write them by hand.

Full build vs. management mode

Under Settings → Product → Agent building, you choose whether Ratchet’s agent writes, tests, and ships code itself (“full” mode), or whether it only plans while your own engineers build (“management” mode). See Settings.