A coworker your organization owns, rather than a tool one developer drives.
Sign-in, the organization and the GitHub connection run today. Tasks, project knowledge and execution evidence are designed and not built.
Jigward is an AI engineering coworker: a persistent teammate an organization assigns work to, under an identity of its own and inside the permissions it is granted. Not a chat wrapper, and not only a coding agent.
No sales pitch. Jigward is currently in development and not yet generally available.
What it is built around
Three commitments you can judge before there is a demo.
Tools that sit next to a developer are designed around finishing the task in front of them. Jigward is built around a different unit: a coworker the organization assigns work to, under an identity of its own and inside a permission boundary it did not set for itself.
- The cheapest sufficient execution path
- When reusable knowledge and Jigward’s own capabilities are enough, Jigward is designed to answer without cloning and running the application. A live engineering workspace is designed as an escalation with a stated reason, rather than the default response to a request. Not starting a machine is both the cheaper path and the smaller blast radius — one argument, not two.
- Jigward owns its external capabilities
- Every action outside Jigward is designed to go through a capability Jigward controls, so the underlying runtime cannot reach past the integration and permission boundaries. Models and runtimes are replaceable providers behind that boundary, which is why no model or vendor name appears anywhere on this page.
- A result and a machine are separate facts
- A command that exits non-zero is one fact. A machine that broke is a different fact about a different thing. Jigward is built around the rule that joins them: an execution outcome never transitions the workspace, so “your build failed” can never be reported as “we failed”, and the reverse can never be hidden.
None of the three runs today. They are the shape the product is being built to, and the reason the rest of this page is worth reading before there is anything to try.
Who it is for, and what it connects to
A narrow scope, on purpose.
Jigward is designed for software engineers, tech leads, business analysts and engineering managers — the people who already hold the context a coworker would need. Two of those four experiences are specified in detail; the other two are named and not yet described, and this page will not invent them.
Repositories it is built for
- JVM
- Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Gradle, Maven
- Web
- Angular, React, Vue
- Node package tooling
- npm, pnpm, yarn
Other technology stacks are out of scope unless explicitly added.
Systems in the prototype contract
- GitHub Connection built App installation and connection. Nothing reads a repository yet.
- Jira Designed Named in the prototype contract.
- Slack Designed Named in the prototype contract.
- Microsoft Teams Designed Named in the prototype contract.
Four systems, one connection. Jigward is designed to reach them through credentials your organization grants and can revoke.
What it is not allowed to do
The refusals are the product.
A coworker is worth trusting because of what it cannot do, not because of what it promises. Two of these are designed boundaries; the rest are commitments about scope that hold whatever gets built.
Designed, and not configurable
- That an action outside Jigward goes through a capability Jigward controls. Configuration decides which actions are automatic, never whether the boundary applies.
- That a failed or unpermitted action stays visible as failed or unpermitted. Nothing is reported as completed when it was not.
- That the organization is the boundary every record hangs off.
Your organization is designed to decide which classes of action run automatically and which wait for a person. That configuration does not exist yet, and when it does it will not reach the three above.
Not goals, now or later
- Unrestricted network, host or credential access from a workspace.
- Autonomous deployment to production.
- Permanent capture of every conversation.
- Perfect, timeless memory.
- General automation unrelated to engineering work.
- Every language, framework and enterprise workflow. Supported repository technology is deliberately narrow.
Security principles are built into the design. No certification or attestation is claimed. Customer-controlled deployment is a later direction, not an offer today.
What runs today
A small surface, described exactly.
There is a running application. It is early, and the honest way to describe it is to say what it does rather than to photograph it.
Built
- Sign-in, through a hosted identity provider. The browser holds a session cookie and nothing else — no token ever reaches it.
- An organization, created and named on first sign-in, renameable by an owner. Every record in the system hangs off it.
- A GitHub App installation bound to exactly one organization, with its connection visible as active, suspended or revoked. Installing the app is what grants access; the repositories are chosen on GitHub’s side and can be changed there at any time.
Not built
- Tasks. There is no task to submit, no routing behind one, and nothing that executes one.
- Project knowledge. Repository, database, API-contract and decision knowledge is a specification, not a store.
- Execution evidence. The readable record of what Jigward inspected, ran and changed is designed in detail and exists nowhere in the code.
- Every integration except GitHub, and GitHub only as the connection grant — nothing reads a repository yet.
The product’s own empty state says the same thing to the people using it: connecting a repository is not part of this build yet.
FAQ
Straight answers
Can I use Jigward today?
Not publicly yet. Jigward is in active development and is being built toward initial real-world use. Conversations with engineering teams are open in the meantime.
What systems will the first version support?
The prototype contract names four: GitHub, Jira, Slack and Microsoft Teams. GitHub is the one with a connection built today, and that connection grants access rather than reading anything yet. The other three are designed and not started.
How much autonomy will it have?
Jigward is designed so that your organization decides this per class of action — some waiting for a person at the moment, some running under a policy recorded in advance, some bounded and low-risk enough to run inside the permissions already granted. None of that configuration exists yet. What is not designed to be configurable is the authorization mechanism itself: nothing reaches your systems unless it was authorized, in the moment or in advance.
What happens to our code and data?
A managed service first, which your organization connects with its own scoped, revocable credentials. Tenant isolation, encryption and least privilege are built into the first version, and no certification or attestation is claimed. Customer-controlled deployment is a later direction, not an offer today.
Who's behind it
Founder, Volkoff LLC · Senior Member, IEEE · Austin, Texas
Kiryl is a software engineer with seven years of experience in backend architecture and integration-heavy enterprise systems. Jigward is founder-led today, so early discovery conversations and pilots work directly with him.
Help shape the first version.
I'm talking with CTOs, engineering leaders and technical founders about where engineering time is lost today, and what they would trust a coworker their organization owns to handle. Fifteen minutes, and the useful half is usually you telling me where this would break.
No sales pitch. Jigward is currently in development and not yet generally available.