Software isn't a craft anymore, it's a manufacturing problem.

At Amika, we're building the open source operating system for coding agents to automate their work, like how the factory automated manufacturing.

Amika gives each agent a cloud computer, and lets you build automated or human-in-the-loop workflows for agents to write code and prove that the code is correct.

A couple of examples:

- Have Amika monitor production and auto-fix errors, testing the fix against your real app

- Add Amika to shared customer Slack channels. Auto-implement customer requests and share a live preview the updated app with them

Check out some more examples in our video 👇

https://youtu.be/GxqFsiBNbww

The problem

AI coding agents made code generation cheap. Producing correct code at scale, with real quality controls, is still unsolved. You're left with a tradeoff: pore over every change and go slow, or vibe-code and ship slop.

Coding agents are useful, but the surrounding system is missing.

- They lack the right dev environment to verify their work

- They lack the right context to understand the full problem

- They lack deterministic guardrails controlling what they can change

- They produce 10x more code, but teams lack a system for 10x more review

How Amika solves this

Amika composes 5 primitives into its agent operating system:

1. Sandboxed environments: isolated cloud computers with the repos, tech stack, MCP servers, skills, and context an agent needs.

2. Workflows: programs as code or markdown files that define when an agent runs and what job it does.

3. Deterministic guardrails: rules enforced on every code change, like "do not cross this module boundary" or "every database query must include a customer ID filter."

4. Automated verification: test, review, fix, and merge loops that check the work against your real tech stack before it ships.

5. Audit trails: the agent chat session, code changes, which checks passed, and what the run cost.

Amika works with your existing coding agent subscriptions (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) so you're not locked into one vendor. Start agents from the web, Slack, GitHub, the CLI, or the API. At any point, a human can take over the sandbox and inspect the running apps, or drive from their own code editor.

Because each sandbox runs your full stack, you review the agent's work in a live preview of your real app, plus the verification artifacts it produced, like screen captures or API test requests, instead of poring over the diff line by line.

With Amika's workflows and environments, you can spend time building higher level loops for your agent to write and verify code, speeding up your product development.

Who we are

We're Jakub and Dylan, two time YC cofounders.

We pivoted our YC company to bet on this, and we already use Amika for the majority of our PRs. We're building it in the open: each primitive ships as open source, and our cloud platform packages the whole operating system into a software factory for teams.

Our ask

- Sign up for a free two-week trial at amika.dev

- Dig into the open source repo on GitHub: https://github.com/gofixpoint/amika

- If you want help setting up your software factory, book at demo at https://cal.com/amika-dev/30min