the lock-inReplit builds inside Replit. Agentation builds inside your repo.
Replit Agent's strength is also its boundary: it generates, runs and deploys your app within Replit's workspace, on Replit's infrastructure, billed through Replit. That's frictionless until you need the codebase to live in your own GitHub org, run in your own CI, deploy to your own cloud, and pass your own review. Exporting later is a migration project. Agentation never creates that gap — the unit of work is a branch and a pull request in the repository you already own. There is nothing to extract because nothing was ever held.
- Your code lands as commits and PRs in your GitHub, not as files in a hosted workspace.
- It deploys through your existing pipeline — Vercel, Hetzner, AWS, wherever you already ship.
- No proprietary runtime to depend on and no export day to dread.
whose keys, whose billRun it on your own AI subscriptions, not a metered sandbox.
Inside Replit you consume Replit's bundled AI through Replit's checkpoints and credits — a second meter on top of your team's existing AI spend. Agentation runs the agents on the AI plans you already pay for (your Claude, your provider keys), so generation cost sits where the rest of your tooling sits, with the limits and procurement you've already approved. We orchestrate the work; the model spend is yours, directly, with no markup layer in between.
- Agents execute on your own provider keys and plan — predictable, already-budgeted spend.
- No per-checkpoint credit meter sitting between you and a working feature.
- Procurement and security already signed off on your AI vendor; nothing new to vet.
the missing layerReplit gives you an agent. Agentation gives you an agent with a boss.
A solo agent that writes straight into your project is exactly how prototypes turn into untouchable software. Agentation puts a Tech Lead between intent and merge: it encodes your architecture, conventions, security posture and company rules once, and every worker agent boots inside them. Then deterministic gates — lint, type-check, tests, secret scanning — run on each change with zero AI judgement involved. Red doesn't merge. So you get the speed of agentic building without inheriting the sprawl that ungoverned generation leaves behind.
- A Tech Lead reviews and dispatches; workers run isolated in git worktrees, never freehand on main.
- Lint, types, tests and security gates pass before a change is allowed near production.
- Your standards are encoded once — agents can't ship outside them, even at 2am.
drive from the productAnnotate the live product instead of describing a workspace.
With Replit you steer from inside the editor — prompts against a file tree, checkpoints to roll back. Agentation flips the cockpit: you open your real, running product and point at it. Mark a broken flow as a bug, a rough screen as a design task, a gap as a feature; each annotation becomes a governed task the Tech Lead routes to an agent. You stay in outcome-space — 'this should feel faster, this is wrong, add this' — and the verified result comes back as a merged PR, not a sandbox you have to inspect.
- Point-and-annotate on the live UI; every mark becomes a tracked, governed task.
- Bug / Feature / Design tags turn product feedback straight into a kanban the agents work.
- You judge the outcome by using it; the structure judges the code underneath.
where it runsEU-hosted, GDPR-aligned, your repo stays yours.
Agentation runs on EU infrastructure (Hetzner, Germany) with data in the EU and a GDPR-aligned posture — relevant if 'where does my code and my data physically sit' is a question your buyers or your legal team actually ask. Your source never becomes ours: it stays in your GitHub throughout, agents act on it through your keys, and we orchestrate rather than host. That's a different ownership model from a US-hosted workspace that holds the app, the runtime and the data together.
- EU hosting and EU data residency, GDPR-aligned by design.
- Source of truth is your GitHub from the first commit to the last.
- We orchestrate the agents; we don't own your runtime or warehouse your code.
FAQIs Agentation a drop-in replacement for Replit Agent?
Not a clone — a different model for the same goal of shipping software with AI. Replit Agent builds and hosts an app inside Replit's workspace. Agentation orchestrates agents that commit into your own GitHub, run on your own AI subscriptions, and pass a Tech Lead plus lint/type/test/security gates before production. If your end state is a codebase your team owns and deploys itself, Agentation fits that; if you want a self-contained hosted sandbox, Replit fits that.
Can I move an app I already started in Replit to Agentation?
Yes — because Agentation works against a normal Git repository, you push your existing project to GitHub and point Agentation at it. From there the Tech Lead encodes your conventions and agents iterate through pull requests like any other contributor. There's no proprietary format to convert; it's the same repo your developers would clone.
Do I need to be a developer to use it?
No. You drive from the live product — annotate what's wrong or missing and the Tech Lead routes it to agents. The engineering rigor (review, gates, conventions) is handled by the structure, not by you. That said, unlike a closed sandbox, the result is a real codebase, so a technical owner can step in and read or extend it whenever they want.
Who pays for the AI, and is there a markup?
You do, directly, on your existing AI plan or provider keys — there's no per-checkpoint credit meter and no resold-tokens markup between you and the model. Agentation charges for the orchestration layer (the Tech Lead, the gates, the annotation cockpit), while the generation cost stays where your other AI spend already lives.
How does Agentation stop agents from making a mess of my repo?
Three ways. Agents never write freehand on main — each task runs isolated in its own git worktree. A Tech Lead encodes your architecture, conventions and security rules, and every agent boots inside them. And deterministic gates — lint, types, tests, secret scanning — must pass before any change is allowed near production. Red doesn't merge, so what accumulates is governed code rather than ungoverned sprawl.
Where does my code and data physically live?
Your code lives in your GitHub the entire time. Agentation's own infrastructure is EU-based (Hetzner, Germany) with EU data residency and a GDPR-aligned posture. We orchestrate agents against your repository using your keys — we don't host your runtime or store your source as ours.