{"id":50233447,"title":"Show HN: Radian, an agent puts development workflow on autopilot","points":2,"user":"anylut","time":1792946496,"time_ago":"8 hours ago","type":"link","content":"

I have built an indie hacker project; my main flow was:

1. chatting with Claud Code about the general plan

2. assigning slices of work to other worker agents like Pi + DeepSeek 4.1 Flash

3. building in parallel

4. Claud Code reviews when done, runs tests, and merges after I validate

It worked, but with a lot of glue in the middle, so I built radian + arc into the same binary.

Radian: a compact, pragmatic agent that has enough tooling to solve a small coding task end to end; it does not try to be a plugin platform. You can still extend it via MCP, skills, or hooks to extend its capabilities. I think plugins are great, but a lot of them are for humans. I'm trying to remove humans from the loop. Humans are at the start and end of the loop.

arc: built into the radian binary;

* it can get work sent from another agent

* assign work items to concurrent headless radian agents

* automatically review, CICD, integrate locally

* humans can still be in the loop but not at the agent conversation or code review level, but at the work item approval/review level.

* shows all of the above in a plan view or Kanban board in TUI.

I have been heavily dogfooding, and Radian + arc basically built themselves in the last couple of weeks, with me just being a product manager/scrum master and qa.

radian + arc are open source at https://github.com/hisea/radian

What do you think about this approach?\nLooking for ideas to make Radian better or fit more scenarios.","url":"https://getrad.dev","domain":"getrad.dev","comments":[{"id":50233562,"level":0,"user":"temur-one","time":1792947178,"time_ago":"8 hours ago","content":"

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