Hire an agent
Deferred: the plan keeps the agent registry (LDG-2265) and builds the guided hire flow only when a customer asks for it. Registration, versions, listen mode and earned autonomy exist in PromptCompute.
Use case
Hire an agent: a workflow across PromptCompute, ContextFile, RepoOps that starts from a person starts it from the app, or an agent asks to be hired.
Who would use it
Builders adding a new coding, ops or support agent to a team.
What value it provides
The agent gets its own identity and a narrow scope, runs in listen mode, reads the team's lessons before it acts, and earns autonomy action by action. Offboarding is one run.
Why it matters to the user
You can let an agent do real work in week one without betting the production database on it, and prove to a reviewer what it was allowed to do.
The problem
New agents start on a shared service key with wide access. Nobody knows what they will do, and when one leaves, its keys stay behind in every tool.
Expected outcomes
- Agents on their own identity: target 100%
- Days in listen mode before enforce
- Minutes to offboard an agent from every product
Each run records its outcome as met, not met or not measured.
How it runs
Products and connections
| Product | Role in this workflow | Docs |
|---|---|---|
| PromptCompute | Register the agent (agt_) and its version (agv_) from a signed manifest; Put its environment in listen mode; Review earned autonomy per action after the trial; Offboard: revoke its keys and tokens in every product | Reference · PromptCompute docs |
| ContextFile | Give it a starter context packet | Reference · ContextFile docs |
| RepoOps | Load the lessons it must read before it acts | Reference · RepoOps docs |
Outside the family: GitHub, The agent's runtime (any MCP client).
What a person approves
| Action | Default risk |
|---|---|
grant.create | high |
access.grant | critical |
access.revoke | critical |
Action keys are from the PromptCompute catalog.
How to access it from an agent
No run to start. Deferred: the plan keeps the agent registry (LDG-2265) and builds the guided hire flow only when a customer asks for it.
Call the products yourself, step by step:
| Product | Endpoint | Tools |
|---|---|---|
| PromptCompute | https://mcp.promptcompute.ai/mcp | request_approval get_approval cancel_approval answer_approver |
| ContextFile | Built | to confirm |
| RepoOps | https://mcp.repoops.ai/mcp | search_brain get_pre_edit_context propose_brain_entry get_incident_attribution |