The decisions and the arguments behind them
Architecture calls, the boundary you drew and why, and the standards your team argued its way to rather than the ones a linter can express.
Codespeed Knowledge
Agents can read code, but they can't read minds.
Your company’s judgment lives in product decisions, customer knowledge, technical standards, and the way your best people work. Codespeed Knowledge gives that understanding a durable place in the repository, so every specialist begins with the code and the judgment around it.
Repo-Owned Context
knowledge/
Inherited Before Work
Lead Dev
Security specialist
Product specialist
Narrative specialist
What Goes In
Everything your team knows that is not in the code.
Four kinds of context, and an engineering wiki would only ever hold the first. An agent working without the other three writes code that compiles and misses the point.
What the business is actually trying to move
Customer segments, product intent, commercial pressure, and the promises the work exists to keep, so an agent building a feature knows what it is for.
Taste, tone, and the way things are done here
Brand guidelines, voice, design conventions, and the house style nobody wrote down. An agent making a product call needs these more than another diagram.
The operating history nobody repeats twice
The outage that produced that retry policy, the migration that went badly, the customer who churned over a detail. Context that only exists because someone lived it.
Open Protocol
An open format, in your own repository.
Plain files that sit beside your code, not rows in a vendor database. They version with the repository, diff in review, and any tool you point at them can read them. The format is open and deliberately small, so it composes with what your team already uses rather than replacing it.
Your Company Brain
Lead Dev helps you build and maintain a company brain that powers long term value across your entire company and agentic workforce.
The company brain behind your AI workforce.
knowledge/
2026-02-10-auth-strategy.md
database-choice.md
default.md
frontend-review.md
customer-segments.md
revenue-goals.md
frontend.md
api-naming.md
# Why the system is the way it is.
Lives in your repo
Versioned with code
Knowledge far beyond code
Consumable by agents
Specialists are assigned Context Profiles so they can focus on the knowledge required for their domain.
Lead Dev interviews you about your goals and business metrics at onboarding
From day zero, Lead Dev reads the codebase and asks your team where the business is going, then turns both into knowledge every agent inherits. Lead Dev then continues to hone and craft this knowledge with you over time, delivering more valuable decisions for the business every day.
Stop re-explaining your business and architectural reasoning
If it isn't in a format your agents can read, knowledge can't be used by your AI workforce. Codespeed centralizes your company's brain in a format Lead Dev and your specialist team can use from day zero to build value.
Leverage business knowledge that extends far beyond code and tech
Every piece of knowledge is valuable to an agent, from business context to design thinking, brand guidelines, tone of voice, analytics, customer experience strategy, and everything in between. Give your agents the knowledge they need to understand who the customer is and what the business is trying to move.
Taste and quality are teachable and enforced far beyond classic agentic skills
Agentic skills were the early-stage solution to teaching agents. Codespeed's Knowledge Protocol extends far beyond these reusable primitives into highly specialized intelligence, carefully crafted and honed by your team of agents over time.
Setup and Onboarding
Turn your codebase into an operating system for autonomous work.
Out of the Box
Intelligent Onboarding
Intelligent onboarding allows teams to get up and running quickly with a knowledge base and day zero value.
Business goals and constraints
Your knowledge base
Specialist lineup and standards
First objectives and review paths
Embedded Applied Team
Codespeed Applied
Our forward deployed engineering team embeds with yours to add hands-on help designing the operating model, rollout strategy, and governance posture.
Operating-model design
Rollout strategy
Governance planning
Career and craft coaching
Instant setup
01
Connect your GitHub organization from your Codespeed account.
02
Create your first project and invite your team to join you.
03
Start onboarding with Lead Dev, and the first session returns work you can review.