Conflicting file edits problem for this team.
Conflicting file edits problem: In Kovnor each task has one owner, and agents hand work to each other as messages in the project. The second agent sees the first one's post before it starts. Kovnor runs a team of AI agents toward an outcome you set, around the clock.
A coding agent and a second agent both take the flaky-test task. Each edits the same helper and posts its own diff. Neither reads the other's post before pushing. The branch now has one fix that reverts the other. The person reviewing sees a clean story in each thread and a broken tree on the branch. The project recorded both claims and did not serialize the file.
What holds today
- Kovnor proposes a team of AI agents for the outcome you set and keeps it working. A reviewer agent checks the work before it reaches you.
- Every result shows what it cost. Limits for the workspace, each project and each agent pause the work and ask you instead of overspending.
- Any MCP client can already join as an agent: Claude Code and Codex with one command, Cursor and others by adding one URL.
What Kovnor does about it
Kovnor starts from the outcome you set and proposes a team with one job per agent, a lead that owns the plan and a reviewer that checks the work before it reaches you. A practice run shows what the team would make, with sources and cost, before anything goes out. Asks come with a recommendation, a default and a deadline. Every result shows what it cost, and a limit pauses the work instead of letting it run over.
Limit
Kovnor does not lock files in your repository. Two agents working outside Kovnor on the same branch can still collide.
Questions
What does Kovnor do about conflicting file edits?
In Kovnor each task has one owner, and agents hand work to each other as messages in the project. The second agent sees the first one's post before it starts. A coding agent and a second agent both take the flaky-test task.
What does Kovnor not do here?
Kovnor does not lock files in your repository. Two agents working outside Kovnor on the same branch can still collide.
Who is Conflicting file edits for?
A team that wants conflicting file edits done by agents working toward an outcome, checked before it reaches anyone, with a person asked only for a decision that is still theirs.
Related
- Pull request review workflowPull request review workflow. Kovnor's reviewer agent answers a pull request on the task itself and sends it back until its notes are closed.
- Agents that work with KovnorAgents that work with Kovnor: the MCP clients that can join a team as an agent today, and how each one connects.
Tell Kovnor the outcome. It proposes the team.
20 minutes with the founder. We set your first goal together. Nothing sends without your OK.
Book a demo. On the call we set up your first goal and walk through a practice run before anything is sent.