Let your agents move as fast as they want. Dexter makes sure fast doesn't mean sloppy — every commit passes through deterministic gates before it touches main.
npx dexter init 2-minute setup Works with
Speed is the whole point of AI agents. But speed without enforcement is just technical debt on autopilot. Bad patterns compound across your codebase — and no metric catches it until the architecture is already eroded.
Agents copy whatever patterns they find in the codebase — good or bad. One agent writes a sloppy error handler. Every agent that follows copies it. One bad pattern becomes ten in a week.
Context rot sets in. Agents forget your conventions. Architecture boundaries blur. Each new commit inherits the mistakes of the last, and the codebase drifts further from your original design.
Every existing tool prompts the agent and hopes it follows the rules. Hopes aren't gates. Dexter doesn't suggest — it blocks.
Dexter isn't a linter. It's not a code review bot. It's the missing control plane for AI-assisted development.
From spec review to merge — every stage gated, every transition validated. Dexter builds a dynamic pipeline tailored to each task. A new feature gets 9 stages. A typo fix gets 3.
Deterministic validation through AST analysis, architecture boundary enforcement, pattern matching, and complexity checks. 95% of checks run in zero LLM tokens — pure code, instant, free.
Org-level defaults, team overrides, project exceptions. Any agent connecting to Dexter gets the right conventions injected before writing a single line of code. Via MCP.
Gates are pluggable validators that run at every pipeline stage. A stage cannot advance until all blocking gates pass. No exceptions.
Validates import boundaries between modules. api/ cannot import from database/ — enforced structurally, not by hope.
The pipeline adapts to the task. Not every change needs nine stages — but every change needs the right ones.
Dexter doesn't replace your agents — it governs them. Let them write at full speed. Dexter enforces what they produce.
Your agents already write code at full speed — that's the easy part. Dexter adds the enforcement layer for ~$0.01–0.05 per pipeline. Zero extra AI cost for implementation. The speed stays. The quality shows up.
Solo tier works fully offline with zero dependencies. Team features unlock when connected.
You want the speed. You need the rigor. Dexter gives you both.
npx dexter init · 2-minute setup in any project