Use your agents and repositories
Connect supported installed agents to the projects you already work on.
Open-source, MIT license
Coordinate your agent fleet for software delivery.
Refine is not another agent harness — it is the management layer on top of your agents. It turns product feedback into Goals, dispatches agents through planning and implementation, and keeps files, terminals, nodes, processes, evidence, Git, and review close to your local workflow.
Why choose Refine
Your agents. Your machines. Your code.
Bring your coding agents into one durable delivery workflow, with code and history under your control.
Coordinate delivery across machines
Keep teams and agent fleets working through shared Goals and review steps.
Keep ownership and recover work
MIT open source, isolated Git worktrees, and retained attempts you can inspect.
Compare the capabilities behind that workflow. Direct agents is a category; features vary by agent.
- Built in
- Custom setup / integration
- Varies
- Not documented
- Not offered
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| Capability | Refine | Direct agents | Blitzy | n8n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MIT open source | Built in | Varies | Not offered | Not offered |
| Local repositories & runtime | Built in | Varies | Custom setup | Custom setup |
| Use installed coding agents | Built in | Varies | Not documented | Custom setup |
| Delivery & review steps | Built in | Varies | Built in | Custom setup |
| Coordinate across machines | Built in | Varies | Not documented | Built in |
| Isolated work & recovery evidence | Built in | Varies | Not documented | Custom setup |
What the capabilities mean
- MIT open source
- The platform itself is MIT licensed. Refine’s license does not change the licenses or service terms of your agents and models.
- Local repositories & runtime
- Run the coordinator alongside repositories you control. Refine uses your existing projects and Git history; model hosting depends on your agent.
- Use installed coding agents
- Refine supervises supported coding-agent CLIs, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Copilot. Choosing an AI model alone is a different capability.
- Delivery & review steps
- Refine retains Goals and Rounds through Plan, Implement, Quality, Governance, and Review. Edit Skills and event bindings to configure the work at each step.
- Coordinate across machines
- Refine coordinates work across registered nodes. This row also counts distributed workflow workers; it does not imply identical fleet behavior.
- Isolated work & recovery evidence
- Refine uses a separate Git worktree for Goal work and retains failed attempts, logs, and candidate context for an explicit recovery decision.
Product qualifications & sources
Sources checked . These are readings of published capabilities, not performance tests. “Not documented” means the sources below do not establish that capability; it does not mean the product cannot do it. “Custom setup” means integration or additional configuration is needed.
- Refine: see the Refine Hub and source and MIT license. Built-in capabilities still require installation, agent authentication, and node configuration.
- Direct agents: a category of independently operated coding agents, rather than one platform. Licensing, local or hosted execution, review, isolation, and recovery depend on the agent and your setup; no universal product rating is implied.
- Blitzy: its product, deployment options, and FAQ describe proprietary technology, existing-codebase development, editable specification approval, validation, and team handoff. Customer VPC and custom on-premises deployments are available by engagement. Its own specialized agents are documented; supervising installed coding-agent CLIs, coordinating your separate machines, and retaining isolated Git work for recovery are not established there.
- n8n: the product and license overview describes a source-available platform under Sustainable Use and Enterprise licenses, with self-hosting, integrations, and human approvals. Queue mode distributes executions across workers. We classify repository work, installed coding agents, software delivery steps, and Git isolation with recovery evidence as custom setup: they can be assembled with workflow logic and tools such as Execute Command, rather than an equivalent documented delivery lifecycle. That node runs on self-hosted instances, is disabled by default, and is unavailable on n8n Cloud.
What Refine does
Your team's agentic software delivery system.
Empower your team
Extend product feedback and app edits to your whole team. Keep planning, features, Goals, chat, and human verification in one workflow. Enter, success, error, and exit events connect your Skills; shared controls let you recover with context when a step fails. Failed work waits for an explicit decision. Manage Governance, Quality, and shared guidance through Skills.
Agent fleet
Orchestrate your agent fleet across decentralized repositories, branches, processes, and your fleet of nodes. Connect any MCP client to the always-on local endpoint, and cheap feedback loops keep agent work moving while git keeps everyone in sync.
Governance
Keep agent work aligned with your product intent, local rules, and requirements. Review stays grounded before changes merge.
Hub
Keep reports, historical records, and static sites with your app's state. Manage them from Hubs in the left rail, the CLI, API, or MCP, and publish reports as websites hosted by Refine.
Product Screens
One workspace for Goals, agents, and tools.
Explore the Refine 4.3.2 navigation, Control screen, and full-width tools in an example workspace.
Get Started
Install Refine locally, then attach the app you want agents to work on.
Install with your agent
raw runbookFollow instructions found at:
/refine-hub/docs/runbooks/install.mdGive this URL to OpenClaw, Codex, Claude Code, Gemini, Copilot, Grok Build, or another coding agent so it can install Refine with explicit checks and report exact blockers.
Documentation
Understand how Refine works.
Find product guides, what’s new in each release, design intent, and operational runbooks together in Refine Hub.