What shipped.

The colony CLI now ships bootstrap templates for Rails, Next.js, and Django, each with integration flags (Stripe, Resend, R2) that scaffold a working app the pipeline can operate against from issue one. End-to-end smoke tests cover all five bootstrap templates in CI. PRs #3650, #3651, #3653.

The home page now leads with the category sentence: The orchestration layer for AI coding agents. The receipts band — 1,284 PRs merged, 14m median cycle, $0.91 per merged PR — moved above the problem framing. The primary CTA is Read the receipts →, pointing at the new /built-by-colony/ destination (live data once the public-stats API ships).

Tightened the cost-cap escalation path so that builders spawning subagents bubble their incremental spend up to the parent issue’s budget in real time, instead of at task close. Inspector now sees the spend trajectory and can escalate to operator before the cap is breached. PR #2843.

Hybrid tenancy — control plane managed by Colony, worker pools in your VPC — is now in private preview with a small set of design partners. Public preview Q3 2026. Talk to us on the pilot call if you need stricter data residency than Cloud’s regional default provides.

colony why <issue> now emits a structured diagnostic report for any issue, paired with a new dead-letter table that captures terminal failures with block_reason and block_context so the Sentinel agent surfaces them to operators instead of letting them sit silent. PRs #2459, #2488.

Colony now talks to Anthropic models through Azure AI Foundry, for teams whose enterprise procurement already covers Azure model contracts. The worker config picks the provider per agent; the cost ledger reports through the same pass-through pricing. PR #2154.

Between March 31 and April 1, the pipeline merged 120+ PRs on its own repo in a single 36-hour window — Mayor through Marshal, with Inspector running deterministic checks and an LLM review before every merge. The failure modes the session surfaced are now encoded as recovery logic in docs/production-learnings.md and anchor the proof points the rest of the site leans on.

Several large internal modules — the Builder executor (2,547 lines), the Mayor’s coordination logic, the SDK type surface — were decomposed into focused submodules through self-improvement issues the pipeline filed against itself. Surveyor prompts now require call-site verification before concluding an issue has no work to do. PRs #1357, #1408.