Twill.ai: YC-Backed Agents That Ship PRs While You Sleep
Today on Hacker News, Twill.ai launched out of Y Combinator S25 batch with a simple promise: delegate coding work to cloud agents, get back pull requests.
The way it works is straightforward. You assign a task from GitHub, Slack, or Linear. Twill spins up a sandboxed cloud environment, runs your preferred coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode), and follows a fixed pipeline: Research, Plan, Approval, Implementation, Code Review, Merge. The sandbox gets completely deleted after the PR merges. You only get pinged when the agent needs your input.
This is not another IDE plugin or chat assistant. Twill runs the same CLI harnesses developers trust locally, but in the cloud. It handles the infrastructure so agents can run overnight, pick up recurring tasks on schedule, and carry persistent memory shaped by your team practices. The key differentiator is that it is CLI-agnostic. You are not locked into one vendor agent.
Backed by Y Combinator, the product is free to start with paid plans for teams. If you are already using coding agents locally and wish they could just keep going after you close your laptop, that is exactly the gap Twill fills.
https://twill.ai
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The way it works is straightforward. You assign a task from GitHub, Slack, or Linear. Twill spins up a sandboxed cloud environment, runs your preferred coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode), and follows a fixed pipeline: Research, Plan, Approval, Implementation, Code Review, Merge. The sandbox gets completely deleted after the PR merges. You only get pinged when the agent needs your input.
This is not another IDE plugin or chat assistant. Twill runs the same CLI harnesses developers trust locally, but in the cloud. It handles the infrastructure so agents can run overnight, pick up recurring tasks on schedule, and carry persistent memory shaped by your team practices. The key differentiator is that it is CLI-agnostic. You are not locked into one vendor agent.
Backed by Y Combinator, the product is free to start with paid plans for teams. If you are already using coding agents locally and wish they could just keep going after you close your laptop, that is exactly the gap Twill fills.
https://twill.ai
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