# Agentic Builder: requests become tools

> Agentic Builder is the part of Substrait where anyone asks for a new tool or a change in plain words, and build agents plan, build, test and ship it under the company's own rules, with the tool's owner in charge.

URL: https://substrait.build/capabilities/agentic-builder/  
Last updated: 2026-11-06

With Agentic Builder, a request becomes a live tool without waiting in an engineer's queue. Anyone asks for a new tool or a change in plain words, and build agents plan, build, test and ship it under your company's rules, its data grants, its scans and its approvals.

## Product management

Anyone can ask for a new tool, or a change to a tool they use, in plain words.
Requests sit in a backlog with status and decisions.
The IT queue becomes visible, and each request is answered.

## Build agents

AI build agents plan, build, test and ship each change.
They work under your company's own settings: its rules, its data grants, its scans and its approvals.
The tool's owner stays in charge.
Every change is reviewed, versioned and can be rolled back.
When a build agent needs an answer, it asks the requester through Substrait's communications centre.

## Not a general project tracker

The backlog is wired to building and deploying tools on Substrait.
It is not meant to replace a company-wide project tracker.

## Related

- [How to get the small tools on IT's backlog built](https://substrait.build/problems/clear-the-it-backlog/): IT builds the core systems, and the long tail of small tools never gets built. Substrait lets the people who need those tools build them, and turns requests into tools through product management and build agents.
- [Templates: Substrait's best practice, wired to your company](https://substrait.build/capabilities/seeded-templates/): Substrait builds templates of common business software on best practice from its own experience. Every installation starts with them, already connected to the company's cloud, sign-on, identity, data and design. A template is copied and owned, never locked to a central version.
- [A security check before every release reaches production](https://substrait.build/capabilities/security-check/): Substrait scans every release for leaked secrets, weak code, vulnerable dependencies, container issues and problems in the running tool. A tool reaches production only through a promotion that clears the check.
- [The communications centre: one pre-wired exchange for the whole organisation](https://substrait.build/capabilities/communications/): The communications centre is one central, pre-wired exchange that connects every alert, approval, notification and message across the organisation. Every tool built on Substrait calls it, so no tool builds its own. The company hooks in its own Slack, Google Chat, Teams, email or WhatsApp, and each person chooses the channel.