The latest articles on DEV Community by junai (@junai). https://dev.to/junai https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F3795524%2Ff1eec290-f768-444c-a085-cd4941a1eb43.jpeg https://dev.to/junai en junai Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:30:46 +0000 https://dev.to/junai/the-ai-agentic-pipeline-that-actually-finishes-what-it-starts-21g2 https://dev.to/junai/the-ai-agentic-pipeline-that-actually-finishes-what-it-starts-21g2 <blockquote> <p>⚡ <strong>Early access / beta</strong> — shipping updates daily. Things move fast. Jump in now and grow with it.</p> </blockquote> <p>Most AI coding tools give you a smart assistant.</p> <p>You ask. It answers. You ask again. It answers again.</p> <p>There's no <em>process</em>. No structure. No handoffs. Just you, manually steering an LLM through every decision from idea to shipped feature — one prompt at a time.</p> <p><strong>What if you didn't have to steer at all?</strong></p> <h2> 🎬 Watch the pipeline run - Coming soon.. </h2> <blockquote> <p>📸 <em>[GIF: intent typed into <a class="mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/orchestrator">@orchestrator</a> → routes to <a class="mentioned-user" href="https://dev.to/prd">@prd</a> → PRD writes itself → pipeline-state.json updates in real-time → next agent auto-opens]</em></p> </blockquote> <p>That's not a demo environment. That's just VS Code + GitHub Copilot + junai installed.</p> <h2> The idea: a real engineering process, run by AI </h2> <p><strong>junai</strong> is an agentic pipeline inside VS Code. Every stage of your delivery lifecycle has a dedicated specialist agent. The Orchestrator routes between them. State is tracked in a plain-text file in your repo.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>Intent → PRD → Architecture → Plan → Implement → Test → Review → Shipped ✅ ↑ every stage has a specialist, every transition is logged, every gate is explicit </code></pre> </div> <p>You describe what you want to build. The pipeline figures out what needs to happen and who handles each part — automatically.</p> <h2> 🤖 Autopilot: sign off once, watch it go </h2> <blockquote> <p>📸 <em>[GIF: autopilot mode — pipeline-state.json updating on disk, next agent auto-opening in Copilot chat, handoff prompt firing, no mouse clicks]</em></p> </blockquote> <p>Switch to <strong>autopilot mode</strong> and junai's watcher monitors <code>pipeline-state.json</code> in real-time. The moment a stage completes:</p> <ol> <li>Reads the routing decision</li> <li><strong>Automatically opens the correct specialist agent</strong></li> <li> <strong>Sends the handoff prompt</strong> — the next agent starts immediately</li> </ol> <p>No copy-paste. No "now go tell the architect agent...". It just <em>goes</em> — until it hits a decision that genuinely needs you.</p> <p>You sign off the intent once. The pipeline runs the rest.</p> <h2> 24 specialists. Right model for the right job. </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Agent</th> <th>Model</th> <th>Why</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Orchestrator, Architect, Anchor</td> <td>Claude Opus</td> <td>Highest-stakes reasoning</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Code Reviewer, Debug</td> <td>Claude Sonnet</td> <td>Judgment over generation</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Implement, Tester, SQL, Frontend</td> <td>GPT-5.3-Codex</td> <td>Pure code output</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Diagrams, UI/UX</td> <td>Gemini Pro</td> <td>Visual + design</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <h2> 9 MCP tools — pipeline control from chat </h2> <blockquote> <p><em>"Where are we?"</em> → <code>get_pipeline_status</code><br> <em>"Skip this stage"</em> → <code>skip_stage</code><br> <em>"Who handles testing?"</em> → <code>get_agent_for_stage</code></p> </blockquote> <h2> 3 modes for 3 situations </h2> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Mode</th> <th>What it does</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>🎛️ <strong>supervised</strong> </td> <td>You approve every gate — full control</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🤝 <strong>assisted</strong> </td> <td>AI recommends, you decide</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🤖 <strong>autopilot</strong> </td> <td>Sign off the intent once. Pipeline runs itself.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <h2> Try it in 60 seconds </h2> <ol> <li>Open VS Code (GitHub Copilot required — the one you already pay for)</li> <li>Search <strong>junai</strong> in Extensions, or → <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=junai-labs.junai" rel="noopener noreferrer">install from marketplace</a> </li> <li>Open Copilot Chat → type <code>@Orchestrator</code> → describe what you want to build</li> </ol> <p>The agent pool lives in <code>.github/</code> — portable across machines, shareable across teams.</p> <h2> ⚠️ This is moving fast </h2> <p>junai is in <strong>active beta</strong>. Features ship <em>daily</em>. The core pipeline is late beta and battle-tested, but rough edges exist.</p> <p>If something breaks — <a href="https://github.com/saajunaid/junai-vscode/issues" rel="noopener noreferrer">open an issue</a>. Fixes land same day or next. Early adopters shape what this becomes.</p> <p><strong>→ <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=junai-labs.junai" rel="noopener noreferrer">junai on VS Code Marketplace</a></strong><br> <strong>→ <a href="https://github.com/saajunaid/junai-vscode" rel="noopener noreferrer">GitHub</a></strong></p> vscode githubcopilot agents ai