helm

Vision

Helm was born from the observation that AI-assisted development works best when structured. Instead of free-form prompting, Helm guides your project through a pipeline of specialized agents — from discovery and planning to implementation and deployment — each with clear acceptance criteria and quality gates.

Helm is a state manager, not an executor. Agent logic lives in markdown definitions and runs inside Claude Code. The CLI manages session state, displays progress, and bridges the gap between conversations. Stop, resume, and checkpoint at any point.

Name

Named after the helm — the wheel that steers a ship's direction. The helm is what translates the captain's intent into the rudder's movement. Without it, a ship drifts.

The name reflects the tool's purpose: to steer your development pipeline with structure and intent — keeping every agent on course, every handoff clean, and every decision traceable.