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The Problem Fabro Solves

Fabro exists for teams that have outgrown the prompt-act-review loop used by most AI coding tools.

Why that loop breaks

Interactive agent sessions work for small tasks, but they do not define a repeatable software process. In practice this creates four recurring problems:

  • The engineer must supervise the agent instead of defining the process once and reusing it.
  • There is no reliable gate between "the agent stopped" and "the work is ready."
  • Model choice is hard to control per step, so cost and quality drift.
  • Sessions are hard to resume, audit, and improve over time.

What Fabro adds

Fabro treats the process itself as code:

  • Workflow graphs define stages, branching, loops, parallelism, and human gates.
  • Model stylesheets route different stages to different models and providers.
  • Sandboxes and Git checkpoints make runs isolated, resumable, and inspectable.
  • Event logs, verifications, and retros create a feedback loop after execution.

Product direction

Fabro should optimize for trust in long-running workflows, not for chat UX. The product is most useful when expert engineers can design, run, inspect, and improve processes with minimal supervision.