Proposal: Dev Central as an agent review hub
Turn Dev Central from a personal dashboard into the place where you hand goals to agents, review their plans, and watch them work.
Proposal, not built. The dashboard exists; the agent-facing parts below do not.
Proposal
- Goal dispatcher. Send a high-level goal to an agent with plan-first mode on: the agent must write an implementation plan, with trade-offs, before it changes code.
- Plan review. Open the plan, question its assumptions, ask for changes or approve it.
- Live agent monitor. A list of running agents and sub-agents with their current tool calls, token budgets and a link into each session.
- Blocker alerts. Notify you when an agent needs a decision or a permission.
- Organization settings. Shared agent rules (
AGENTS.md, coding conventions) and the app and service boundaries agents must respect. - Proof and sign-off. A walkthrough with test logs and snapshots, reviewed before the change is merged.
What exists today
- Dev Central (
packages/dev-central) has tabs for tasks, pull requests, notifications, blockers, standup and activity. It loads your issues, pull requests and review requests (dc-get-my-issues,dc-get-my-prs,dc-get-review-requestsinmain.js). - A list headed “In code review” shows saved reviews with CI state and an Open Code Review button (
renderer/task-reviews.js). - The walkthrough viewer (
renderer/walkthrough-viewer.js) is wired todc-review-get-task-proof, which returns one hardcoded sample (TASK-201). packages/dev-centralhas no goal dispatcher, plan review screen or agent monitor.
Source
Raw note: ideas/inbox/dev-central-ai-agent-review-development.txt. The earlier long spec is in the git history of this file.