Your codebase deserves a senior engineer that never sleeps. Dexter sits between AI agents and your codebase — enforcing conventions, blocking bad patterns, and orchestrating the full spec-to-merge pipeline.
npx dexter init 2-minute setup Integrates with the tools your team already uses
AI coding agents write code fast. Dangerously fast. Without a quality enforcement layer, that speed comes at a compounding cost — one that doesn't show up in your metrics until it's too late.
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.
Codebase health plateaus around 6 months of AI-assisted development and never recovers. Context rot sets in — agents forget your conventions, architecture boundaries blur, and technical debt compounds silently.
Every existing tool prompts the agent and hopes it follows the rules. None of them guarantee it. Hopes aren't gates. A system prompt is not an enforcement layer.
Dexter isn't a linter. It's not a code review bot. It's the enforcement layer that sits between your agents and your codebase.
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.
Dexter builds a dynamic pipeline for each task. A new feature gets the full 9-stage pipeline. A typo fix gets 3. Each stage must pass its gates before advancing.
Dexter doesn't replace your agents — it orchestrates them. Claude Code and Codex use your existing subscriptions. Dexter just makes sure they write it right.
Implementation stages use your existing Claude Code or Codex subscription — zero extra AI cost. Dexter's own analysis (spec review, code review) uses cheap models: ~$0.01–0.05 per pipeline. Dexter makes your existing AI investment more reliable, not more expensive.
Solo tier works fully offline with zero dependencies. Team features unlock when connected.
You already have agents that write code. Give them the enforcement layer that makes sure they write it right.
npx dexter init · 2-minute setup in any project