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title: "Hilos Turns Chat into a Development Control Plane"
description: "Hilos shows a working format where chat, repository, preview, PR, and merge confirmation become one development control plane for people and coding agents."
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published_at: "2026-07-22"
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# Hilos Turns Chat into a Development Control Plane

Hilos gathers familiar pieces of agentic development into one control plane. A person assigns work in a channel or thread. The agent works against a repository. It returns a PR, preview, diff, and constraints. The human confirms the merge.

That matters because chat stops being just an interface to a model. It becomes a development operations room with context, discussion, artifacts, links to code, and a decision point.

This shape fits the New Runtime -> Codex -> OpenClaw workflow: the agent performs the work, but publication or merge remains a human-confirmed action.

New Runtime read: a strong agent chat must be tied to repo state and deployment artifacts. Otherwise it remains a polished shell around a prompt box.