Question 1

What is Autohand?

Accepted Answer

Autohand is an AI software company and software factory for engineering teams. Its products include Autohand Code for day-to-day coding agents and Autohand Evolve for evaluator-driven optimization loops across governed enterprise codebases.

Question 2

What is Autohand Code?

Accepted Answer

Autohand Code is a self-evolving code agent for terminal, VS Code, Zed, JetBrains, Chrome, Slack, and code-agent SDK workflows. It reads repository context, plans multi-step changes, edits files, runs tests, and prepares implementation evidence.

Question 3

What is Autohand Evolve?

Accepted Answer

Autohand Evolve is an AI discovery loop for teams with a target metric and a review process. It connects a baseline, evaluator, constraints, candidate mutations, scoring, and promotion history so teams can explore more code improvements with evidence.

Question 4

How is Autohand used by regulated enterprises?

Accepted Answer

Engineering teams use Autohand with private model routing, MCP and tool permissions, policy gates, reviewer approvals, and audit trails so model calls, tool actions, code diffs, and handoffs remain visible.

Question 5

Can Autohand run with private models?

Accepted Answer

Autohand supports cloud and local model routing, including enterprise gateways and local providers such as Ollama, Llama.cpp, and MLX, depending on the deployment setup.

Question 6

How do I choose between Autohand Code and Autohand Evolve?

Accepted Answer

Use Autohand Code for daily coding, review, tests, docs, migration, and repository automation. Use Autohand Evolve when you have a measurable optimization target and want agents to generate, score, and hand off candidate improvements.