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Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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We already support computer use out of the box (linux sandboxes). Self hosted runners are not available yet, but Twill is built on a runtime agnostic layer (see https://github.com/TwillAI/agentbox-sdk ) so it is feasible!

You definitely got my interest... will try it out!

Let us know how it goes!

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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I agree and that is why I think monorepos are making a comeback. That said, there are workarounds, like cloning all repos and enabling LSP (coding CLIs added that feature) or using a dedicated solution for codebase indexing and add a skill/mcp. Super fast models spamming grep commands are also fun to watch! Curious to know how you implemented it in house.

https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt Run a copy of this in the same VPC. Monorepos would definitely help, but that's not the structure we have. I didn't want to rely on API limits (or stability) at GitHub for such a core feature. Using this we've had agents find dead APIs across multiple repos that can be cleaned up and the like. Very useful.

this is great, thanks for sharing

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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I believe there is a difference between an open source framework and a product. You would still have to manage and scale your infra, build the integration layer around it to make it accessible where your teams are, fix bugs etc... I am not saying that build is always the bad choice, but the tradeoff did not disappear imo

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I’m newer to knowing and caring about what YC does at all in terms of the companies it funds. The fact that this is YC makes me think the org has forfeited any sense of “taste” at all. Complete scattershot from people who have money to scatter I guess.

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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I’m newer to knowing and caring about what YC does at all in terms of the companies it funds. The fact that this is YC makes me think the org has forfeited any sense of “taste” at all. Complete scattershot from people who have money to scatter I guess.

You can read old Paul Graham essays and the early YC Startup School (which is probably when peak YC happened) to get a sense of the ethos. They increased batch size to scale (as context for the "stopped doing things that don't scale" comment)

https://www.startupschool.org/

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full computer use? Again Cursor is the best I've tried there - what kind of triggers do you support? We have in particular one automation built with cursor to auto approve PRs that are low-risk. It triggers on a specific comment on a PR Finally some advice from a user's pov: you need to invest a lot in the onboarding experience. I tried Devin today and it couldn't get it to work after one hour of fiddling. How do you store the repo's setup scripts? Cursor cloud is pretty opaque and annoying to configure on that side. Anyway I'll try it!

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full comp…

Sent you some feedback from the app, I can't get GitHub to connect. Feel free to contact me over email to troubleshoot!

Re: Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

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Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full comp…

On computer use: Yes. Sandboxes come with a computer-use CLI for driving Linux GUI apps via X11.

On triggers: Cron, GitHub (PRs, issues, @twill mentions in review comments), Slack, Linear, Notion, Asana webhooks, plus CLI and web. Our PR-comment workflow is you would have to tag @twill with an instruction. That being said, you can also setup a daily cron on Twill that checks PRs with a specific label like Confidence Score : x/5 and tell it to auto-approve when 5/5 for example.

On setup scripts: Per-repo entrypoint script, env vars, and ports, all accessible on the UI. There is a dedicated Dev Environment agent mode that you start with to setup the infra. You can steer the agent into how to setup if it gets stuck. So this should be smooth. The agent can also rewrite the entrypoint mid-task.

There is also a Twill skill you can add to your local agents to dispatch tasks to Twill. Meaning you can research and plan locally using your CLI and delegate the implementation to a sandbox on Twill.

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