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How to Send Work to a Software Factory from Any Tool

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A cloud software factory centralizes software-development lifecycle automation through an orchestrating agent that can be triggered from Slack or Teams, issue trackers, Git hosting platforms, terminals or IDEs via MCP, and custom APIs, with each integration serving as a different entry point to the same workflow rather than requiring separate workflows. The source distinguishes explicit human requests from implicit event-driven triggers and emphasizes that integrations should return status and results to the surface where work originated. It argues that intake permissions, which allow the factory to receive and respond to requests, should be separated from execution permissions, which allow agents to access code, to avoid granting broad standing repository access merely for convenience. Teams are advised to begin with a single intake channel, narrowly scope access to the repositories required, verify bidirectional handoffs, and add integrations only after the initial workflow is reliable. Warp Factories is presented as a control plane supporting built-in integrations, MCP-based interaction with coding agents, centralized run visibility, version-controlled factory definitions, and configurable infrastructure, inference, and data-storage ownership.

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