Meet Io
Io asks. You decide.
Io is the AI agent in InOrbit. It reads your checks, monitors, code and decisions, does the work, and files an ask when something needs a person.
Nothing ships on Io's word alone. Every change ends in a tap by a person, and a record of it.
Checks the evidence before it answers.
state: idle · asks: 0
On the phone
An ask on your iPhone
Io files the ask. It lands on your phone with what it checked, what approve will do and what deny will do. You answer with Face ID, and the answer is recorded with your name.
The status follows · Who decided, when and how, kept with the change itself.
Waiting on youSample
- kind
- Decide
- account
- Harbour Labs
- title
- Ship the CSV export
- summary
- Two checks passed, one review done.
- evidence
- 3 checks, 1 preview
- approve_means
- merge #412 and roll it to preview.
- deny_means
- the pull request stays open and Io reads your note.
decisionApproved by Jane · 09:42 · recorded
Asked by IoFace IDApproved by Jane
Harbour Labs
Waiting on you
Ship the CSV export
Two checks passed, one review done.
Evidence: 3 checks, 1 preview
- Approve: merge #412 and roll it to preview.
- Deny: the pull request stays open and Io reads your note.
The identity
Drawn from the mark
Io is the InOrbit mark given a face. Three parts, and each one means something.
The ring is the face
The O of the mark, the orbit everything moves in. Eyes on you, a light in each one.
The i is the antenna
The stem of the i, standing up. Io is listening to your systems.
The amber dot means someone is here
The tittle of the i, lit. It is always on: Io has no busy, away or alarm state.
Thirteen moods
One drawing, thirteen states, every one live. Each loop runs 2 to 6.5 seconds with easing; under reduced motion they hold still.
Waiting
Where it is used · Error pages: slow down
How it works
Io and the agents ask. A person decides.
Every ask takes the same path, whether it comes from Io, a worker it runs or a tool you wired in.
- 01
Ask
Io does the work, then files an ask with the evidence and what each answer will do.
- 02
Decide
A person approves or denies, on the phone, the Mac or in a terminal.
- 03
Record
The decision, who made it and how are kept with the change, for good.
What holds, every time
- Io and the agents ask; a person decides.
- Auto-approve, when a person turns it on, is time-limited and expires by itself.
- Io never approves its own work: whoever wrote it can't review it.
- Each ask says what approving will do and what denying will do.
- Every decision records who made it and how.
Asked by IoApproved by Jane09:42 · recorded
For engineers
Why this is easy to live with
Io takes the chasing out of shipping and leaves the decision where it belongs.
One place to approve
The same ask on the phone, the Mac and in the terminal. Answer wherever you are; the others see it at once.
PhoneMacTerminalOne askNothing ships without a person
Io can prepare, test and propose. Merging, rolling and publishing wait for a tap. Auto-approve, when you turn it on, runs out by itself.
- Io and the agents ask; a person decides.
- Io never approves its own work: whoever wrote it can't review it.
- Auto-approve, when a person turns it on, is time-limited and expires by itself.
A full record
Each ask, each answer, who gave it and how. Open it later, link it from a pull request, show it to an auditor.
Approved by Jane · 09:42 · recorded
Asked by IoApproved by Jane
Plain words
Io says what it checked and links the evidence. It says "I don't know yet" instead of guessing.
- Approve: merge #412 and roll it to preview.
- Deny: the pull request stays open and Io reads your note.
- Evidence: 3 checks, 1 previewon record