Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane

Building Backplane: shared project state for humans and coding agents. Open source September 21.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

We built Backplane so humans and AI agents could work on Valaris projects from a shared project state. Today we're sharing the first public look.

Self-hosted, MCP-native, open source on September 21.

Where does your team keep project state?

https://t.co/8T3w3QZdFs

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@DanKornas A short “not checked” section pointing to where the agent should look next would help. Less room to guess, without loading the whole repo.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

Backplane is for getting people and AI agents working together.

Backplane Dogfight is for getting absolutely no work done 😄

My cofounder @sssebol and I decided every Valaris product should come with a game or an easter egg. This is Backplane’s ✈️

TGIF. Who’s up for a round?

Our slightly more serious side: https://t.co/XOGjvqFZO6

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@GergelyOrosz One impressive demo and we're ready to give it a promotion. Probably worth making it do the boring Tuesday work first 😅

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@xurxodev El único del equipo que sí consiguió que le respetaran el horario laboral 😂

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@Shpigford The more useful test is whether the person posting it can explain or defend it when someone pushes back.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@fmontes @herdrdev Cinco trabajando en paralelo y uno revisando 😅 Ahí ayuda que cada issue llegue con una forma clara de comprobar si quedó bien.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@fmontes Quick call y dos líneas con lo decidido. Si no, mañana toca otra quick call para recordar la primera 😅

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@Shpigford The savings are real. They just get reinvested before the invoice arrives 😂

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@Yarilo7brigada I’d keep a small random sample of the rejected posts too. Otherwise you can tell the filter saves time, but not whether it quietly hides something you’d have wanted to read.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@agazdecki And you get better at not making your panic the whole team’s emergency.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@butshaunn Does the 72-hour clock reset every time a new model drops? We may never have a strategy again.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@Bencera Episode 3: you find out you’re a guest.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@Shpigford Sharing how something works feels different from sharing which customer problem took months to spot. You can be open about the build without publishing your next move.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@rauchg The case I’d want to test: the nightly job updates a memory while an agent is still working from yesterday’s version. Keeping both revisions would make that much easier to untangle.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@steipete The interesting cases will be corrections phrased like casual follow-ups. “One more thing” can mean a new task, or “stop, that assumption is wrong.”

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

https://t.co/racfHPLIj5

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

We built Backplane because we needed it at Valaris. That doesn’t mean every team does.

If you already use Linear and coding agents, what coordination work still falls on you?

That’s what my cofounder and I want to understand now that Backplane is open source.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@butshaunn Day one: “Who handles procurement?” Everyone points at the founder.

[Matías Matthews ✈️ Backplane @MatiasMatthews]

@fmontes Te resuelve el primer clic. Que vuelvan mañana sigue siendo trabajo del producto.