{"slug": "sync-quality-control-and-project-management-system-for-ai-agents", "title": "Sync – Quality Control and Project Management System for AI Agents", "summary": "Sync, a new project-management and quality-control system for AI coding agents, launched in alpha v0.4.5. The tool runs locally and enforces agent accountability to defined specs, rules, and roadmaps, flagging stale context to prevent hallucinations and architectural drift. Sync integrates with editors like Claude Code, Cursor, and Zed, and is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux.", "body_md": "### A roadmap your agent reads\n\nSet milestones, define specs, and the agent pulls what's next from your plan — not its own guess. Blocked work drops out of the queue. You see progress in real time.\n\nSync is the project-management and quality-control layer your AI agents work against. Define your specs, rules, decisions, and roadmap once — Sync holds every agent accountable to them, so they build against your architecture instead of hallucinating or repeating past mistakes. When the code moves, stale context gets flagged and the agent has to stop and ask.\n\nFrom install to results in one step. Runs entirely on your machine — nothing is ever uploaded. Currently in alpha · v0.4.5. Building team & cloud features — [join the waitlist](#waitlist).\n\nMCP server · Desktop app · Built-in terminal · Claude Code · Cursor · Zed · Codex · OpenCode\n\nAn agent is only as aligned as what it reads. Point it at stale, scattered context on a large task and it heads off course — confidently, while you're looking the other way.\n\nIt trusts whatever it finds, even when the code moved on months ago.\n\nWhere docs are missing, it invents plausible-but-wrong context.\n\nIt re-litigates choices you already overturned, again and again.\n\nGet started in seconds\n\nNo mandatory terminal commands, no git clone, no long configuration files. Everything happens in the desktop app or with a single click.\n\nDownload Sync for macOS, Windows, or Linux. One binary, no dependencies — just open it.\n\nPoint Sync at any local repository. It sets up the .sync/ knowledge base automatically — no manual config.\n\nThe Welcome wizard wires up Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, Codex, or OpenCode instantly — and you can run them right inside Sync's built-in terminal. No config files.\n\nLatest release v0.4.5 · macOS, Windows & Linux · free and open source\n\nHow Sync is different\n\nAI coding agents are powerful, but without a plan to work against they cause architectural drift, forgotten decisions, and regressions. Memory files and wikis can hold context — they aren't built to keep an agent accountable to your project. Sync is: a mission-control layer above your editor and agent.\n\nSync Project management & quality control | Memory systems e.g. Cursor rules | Documentation Confluence · Notion | |\n|---|---|---|---|\n| Primary goal | Control agent results & enforce quality | Provide simple text context to the agent | Human-readable knowledge sharing |\n| Structure | Strict, agent-readable constraints & widgets | Free-form text files | Unstructured text, tables, images |\n| Staleness tracking | Automatic — tied tightly to code changes | None / manual | Manual audits required |\n| Agent behavior | Must respect the rules; asks for approval when context goes stale | Reads notes, but often ignores them | Usually can't access it seamlessly |\n| User experience | Visual Project Hub, widgets, direct oversight | Simple text editing | External web interface |\n\nSync works as a highly effective memory system too — but its real power is governance and quality control.\n\nWhy Sync\n\nStructured, versioned, and always current — so you and your agent (and the whole team) build the same thing, instead of you cleaning up after it drifts.\n\nAutomated quality gates\n\nEvery entry is bound to the code it describes. When a commit moves past it, Sync marks it stale — pointing at the exact commit and files — and makes the agent stop and ask for your input instead of silently building on old data.\n\nSessions are signed JWTs with a 15-minute expiry.\n\nscope · src/auth/session.ts\n\nWritten as it works\n\nSpecs, decisions, constraints, and observations get captured during coding, by the agent, in typed structure it can query precisely later — not prose nobody re-reads.\n\nUse refresh-token rotation on every renew.\n\nNever log raw tokens or PII — redact at the boundary.\n\nProject Hub — roadmap, specs, milestones\n\nGoals → milestones → specs, used not as notes but as control elements. This is the plan you point the agent at — it pulls what's next from your roadmap and codes against it, instead of its own guess.\n\nThe most important part of big work\n\nThe hard part of a large task isn't typing the code — it's keeping the work pointed at the right outcome. Sync makes the agent's direction legible and steerable.\n\nYou decide; it proceeds. Nothing auto-commits.\n\nRun agents where you steer them\n\nLaunch your agents right inside Sync — multiple terminals side by side, each opened into your project and wired to its context through the built-in MCP server. No separate console window, no context switching.\n\nFrom you to the whole team\n\nYou start alone on the hard problem. Because the knowledge lives in git, it stops being your private context the moment you push — the whole team and their agents read and steer with the same fresh plan.\n\ndecision · d-3c2a4f — Token strategy\n\nOne developer writes it. The whole team — and their agents — read and steer with it.\n\nProject Hub & Widgets\n\nNot just notes — a task tracker agents actually work against, with a visual dashboard that shows exactly what's happening in your project right now.\n\nSet milestones, define specs, and the agent pulls what's next from your plan — not its own guess. Blocked work drops out of the queue. You see progress in real time.\n\nAdd widgets to visualize project health, open questions, stale entries, or any metric. Your agent can create dashboards too — turning Sync into a living operations console.\n\nAnd more\n\nEvery entry is valid, unverified, stale, or invalid — so neither you nor your agent ever builds on context that quietly went wrong.\n\nChoose the language your agent writes docs in. Ready-made presets, plus any BCP-47 tag — so specs, decisions, and docs read naturally for your team.\n\nTyped links — depends_on, supersedes, references — built from frontmatter, manual links, and body mentions.\n\nDiscussion pinned to exact text. A human answer becomes the canonical, attributed part of the spec.\n\nSwitch between projects from the side rail, or group several into a curated workspace and steer them as one.\n\nEvery entry is bound to the files it describes. When the code changes, Sync re-checks the affected knowledge and flags what drifted — no manual audits.\n\nBuilt-in quality gates\n\nProjects change. Files move. APIs get renamed. Left unchecked, your agent keeps trusting context that quietly went stale — and it won't tell you. Sync's staleness engine ensures it has to.\n\nWhen a commit touches files a spec or decision describes, Sync marks it stale — pointing at the exact commit and drifted files. No manual audit.\n\nInstead of silently building on old data, the agent has to surface what went stale and ask you to re-validate it — shutting down the #1 hallucination path.\n\nNothing is auto-committed. You review the agent's proposed decisions and answer its questions in the Project Hub — you're always in the driver's seat.\n\nWho is it for\n\nWhether you're building solo or leading a team, Sync makes your relationship with agents predictable — and keeps you in charge.\n\nDelegate routine to agents, keep the architect role. Set the direction once — the agent builds against your plan, not its guess.\n\nStop repeating instructions to your agent. Write a spec once, link it to the code, and every session gets the canonical version — reasoning included.\n\nWrite specs the AI actually reads and executes — not prose that dies in Notion. Link acceptance criteria to milestones. Watch progress happen.\n\nAnd not just software. Because your agent authors custom widgets, the Project Hub adapts to whatever you're building:\n\nSync is free and open source today. We're building team and cloud features next — drop your email and we'll tell you first. No noise in between.\n\nFAQ\n\nSync is the project-management and quality-control layer your AI agents work against. You define the project — its specs, rules, decisions, and roadmap — and Sync holds every agent accountable to it, so they follow your architecture and constraints instead of hallucinating or repeating past mistakes. Everything lives in your repository; there is no cloud, no account, and no telemetry.\n\nWikis and Markdown rot silently: nothing tells you when a page no longer matches the code, and your agent usually can't access them seamlessly anyway. Sync stores structured, agent-readable specs and constraints, ties each one to the files it describes, and flags it stale when those files change — so the agent never pattern-matches against out-of-date information.\n\nYou can use Sync as a highly effective memory system — but that's not the point. Memory tools pass raw text to the agent and hope it's still true. Sync's job is governance: it ties every spec, decision, and constraint to the code it describes, makes the agent respect them, flags them stale when the code changes, and forces it to stop and ask for your approval before acting on old data. The power is control and quality, not just recall.\n\nYou set the plan the agent works against — goals, milestones, and specs ranked by priority. As it works, the agent reads your constraints, updates the roadmap, and files open questions when it hits ambiguity; your answers become canonical. You overturn decisions and set constraints it must respect. Nothing is auto-committed — you review and approve every change. You steer the direction; the agent follows.\n\nIn your repository. Sync writes plain files under `.sync/` — there is no SaaS backend, no account, and nothing is uploaded. Your knowledge is versioned, reviewable in pull requests, and travels with the code.\n\nAny MCP-capable client. The Welcome wizard wires up Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, OpenCode, and Codex for you instantly — and you can run them right inside Sync's built-in terminal. For anything else, point your client at the binary with `claude mcp add git-sync -- git-sync mcp`. Sync ships as a desktop app and a CLI, and the binary itself is the MCP server.\n\nSync is currently in alpha. It's usable today and improving fast, but the internal data model can still change between releases. Hit a rough edge? Open an issue on GitHub — issues and pull requests are warmly welcome.\n\nSync is free and open source under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-MIT), which reverts to MIT two years after each release — free for all non-competing use. It runs entirely on your machine. Paid team and cloud features are coming later — join the waitlist to be first in line.\n\nSync is free and open source. Nothing is uploaded — everything lives in your repo, on your machine. 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