Quickstart
Sign up, connect a repository and an AI key, start a feature from a PRD, approve its requirements and design, cut work orders, and let an agent open your first pull request.
This guide takes you from a new account to a coding agent opening a pull request for a feature. You'll need a repository on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and an API key from Anthropic (or OpenAI, Google Gemini or DeepSeek).
1. Sign up and connect your code
Go to app.skaftor.com and choose "Create account" (email and password, a magic link, or Google, GitHub or Microsoft). The "Welcome to skaftor" setup opens and asks "Where does your code live?" Pick your code host, then select the repositories to add on "Here's what we found" and choose "Create N projects". Access is read-only — nothing is changed in your repos until you raise a pull request.
Optionally connect where your product docs live (Notion, Confluence, Jira, Linear) and import your team. You can skip both and do them later.
2. Add an AI key
Skaftor runs on your organisation's own AI key. Until one is set you'll see "AI features are off". An Admin adds it in Settings › "AI keys & limits" › "Provider keys" › "Add key", then "Save & verify".
3. Start a feature
On Home, use "Start from a PRD": drop a PDF, Word, Markdown or text file, import one from a connected tool, or choose "Open the example". You can also "Describe it in a sentence" and select "Plan it". On the feature page, select "Start building".
4. Answer, review and approve requirements
Skaftor lists what the document leaves open — answer or skip each question, then "Answer & continue". It drafts the requirements (usually 1 to 4 minutes). Review each line, include or exclude it, then "Accept & continue". The requirements go to the Product Manager, who approves them from their Inbox.
5. Write and approve the design
On the Design tab, select "Write the design". An agent reads the repository on a workstation and writes a technical design with diagrams. The Tech Lead reviews it and selects "Approve".
6. Cut work orders and build
On the Work orders tab, select "Cut work orders", check where each one lands on "Where should this work land?", and "Create N work orders". Then "Start development" and choose where the code is generated: Skaftor Cloud (a fresh workstation per work order, nothing to install) or This machine (your editor, connected over MCP).
7. Review and merge
Each agent opens a pull request. Skaftor runs an AI review and a gate that reads CI and checks the diff against the acceptance criteria. Approve and merge from the work order — or use "Approve & merge all" on the feature's Build tab.