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Coming soon. Not in this release. This page describes where the runtime is going, so that the shape is public before the code is.
A run is a graph of steps, and the steps are not alike. Most of them are cheap: a command that runs your tests, a condition that reads a file, a question that waits for a person. One or two are not: the step that builds the image, the step that runs the suite that takes an hour, the step that needs a machine larger than the one on your desk. A remote node moves one of those steps and nothing else. One step executes on another machine. The orchestrator stays where you started it, the event record is written where it always was, and the change the step made comes back as a commit or a patch rather than as a filesystem you have to keep in sync.

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What stays local

The parts that make a run inspectable do not move.
  • The graph and its decisions. What runs next, what sends work back, what a review concluded: all of it is decided and recorded locally, so the record of the run is one file on one machine rather than a correlation problem across several.
  • The approvals. A question for a person is answered where the person is.
  • The workspace you can read afterwards. The remote step’s change arrives as a commit, so what it did is reviewable the same way any other change is, by anyone, later, without the machine that made it.

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Why a commit rather than a shared filesystem

A mounted or synchronised filesystem makes the remote step feel local until it does not: a partial write during a network stall is a workspace nobody can explain afterwards. A commit is atomic, it carries its own description, and it is the artefact the rest of this runtime already records against. The step either produced one or it did not.

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What it does not do

It does not distribute a run. The graph is not sharded across machines and steps do not migrate for load; one named step is given a place to execute and everything else is unchanged. A run whose remote machine is unreachable fails that step where it stands, with the reason on the record, rather than continuing somewhere else quietly.