Agent-Assisted Codebase Scaffolding and Maintenance Offer (10-18 days)
A productized engagement that stands up an AI code tool workflow for client delivery: prompt-to-scaffold generation, automated API-break repair across repos, and a human review gate before anything ships. Built for agencies that need to compress build cycles without handing architecture decisions to a model. Time: 10-18 days.
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Agent-Assisted Codebase Scaffolding and Maintenance Offer (10-18 days)
A productized engagement that stands up an AI code tool workflow for client delivery: prompt-to-scaffold generation, automated API-break repair across repos, and a human review gate before anything ships. Built for agencies that need to compress build cycles without handing architecture decisions to a model.
- Signed client agreement scoping which repositories and environments the agents may touch, with a named human approver per repo Read access to the client's version control history so the tooling can learn existing code patterns before generating anything A written architectural standard (folder conventions, dependency policy, review rules) that generated code must conform to Baseline metrics for the current build and debug cycle: hours per feature, defect escape rate, mean time to resolve integration breaks Agreed model and inference budget ceiling, plus a documented fallback path if the primary vendor changes pricing or access terms
- 1.Inventory client repositories, languages, and dependency graphs
- 2.Record baseline cycle times for feature work and bug fixes
- 3.Confirm which environments agents may write to and which stay read-only
- 1.Document the architectural standard generated code must satisfy
- 2.Define the human review gate and name approvers per repository
- 3.Set the inference budget ceiling and escalation path for overruns
- 1.Configure the chosen platform against a sandboxed copy of the client codebase
- 2.Load repository history so pattern learning reflects real conventions
- 3.Run a single low-risk scaffold task end to end as a smoke test
- 1.Generate a reference feature from a plain-language spec
- 2.Compare output against the architectural standard line by line
- 3.Log every deviation as a rule to add to the review checklist
- 1.Set up automated detection for breaking API and schema changes
- 2.Map which consumer repositories depend on each changed contract
- 3.Dry-run the auto-fix pull request flow on a non-production branch
- 1.Run the API-break repair flow against a real pending change
- 2.Measure time from detection to merged fix versus the baseline
- 3.Tune the pattern-learning scope if fixes miss house style
- 1.Build the review dashboard showing agent changes with risk levels
- 2.Assign severity thresholds that trigger mandatory human sign-off
- 3.Test the escalation path with a deliberately risky generated change
- 1.Train the client delivery team on prompt structure and scope limits
- 2.Walk through three failure modes observed during the pilot
- 3.Publish the do-not-delegate list: architecture, auth, payments, data migrations
- 1.Run a full parallel build: agent scaffold plus human implementation
- 2.Compare hours, defect counts, and review time between the two tracks
- 3.Capture the delta as the client-facing speed claim
- 1.Draft the operating runbook covering daily agent sessions and handoffs
- 2.Write the vendor exit clause: how to migrate repos and prompts elsewhere
- 3.Package the review checklist as a reusable agency asset
- 1.Present pilot results to client stakeholders with the measured delta
- 2.Agree the retainer scope for ongoing maintenance automation
- 3.Hand over credentials, runbook, and dashboard access
Agencies charge for compressed delivery cycles, not for tool access, so the fee tracks the hours removed from the client's build and debug backlog rather than the platform subscription. The review gate and runbook are the billable differentiator: any team can prompt a model, but few can prove generated code meets a client's architectural standard. Retainer margin holds because maintenance automation (API-break repair, dependency sync) recurs monthly while the setup work is one-time.
- Architectural standard and do-not-delegate list governing what agents may generate Review checklist with severity thresholds and named approvers per repository API-break detection and auto-fix pipeline configured against the client's consumer repos Operating runbook covering daily agent sessions, handoffs, and vendor exit procedure Pilot report comparing agent-assisted and human-only build tracks on hours and defect counts
The client's delivery team has shipped at least one agent-scaffolded feature and one auto-repaired API break through the human review gate, with measured cycle-time deltas documented and the runbook signed off by the client's technical owner.