GitHub getting pulled deeper into Microsoft’s AI core — especially after the CEO exit — is a clear sign that centralised platforms will always tilt corporate. A TSX/SEV-style stack would be a massive leap forward: open-source infra that’s verifiable, self-sovereign, and global-first.

What would make me switch? Simple: a toolchain that’s not just open-source in license, but open in governance — built by people who actually use it, not just profit from it.

what would it take? cheaper than github, better in every way and faster. now get to work

Switched to GitLab as soon as MS purchased it.

Apart from MS taking over GitHub, most AI agents or automation in CI/CD and governance are either centralized or unverifiable. We can’t prove the agent’s integrity, nor guarantee it hasn’t been tampered with.

Shade agents solve it by:

- Shade Agents are autonomous services that run inside Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), producing cryptographic attestations of every action they take.

- Unlike traditional CI/CD bots or automation scripts, which require blind trust in a hosting provider, Shade Agents give us mathematical proof that the code we audited is the code running in production.

- All agent actions and decisions are recorded on-chain, creating an immutable, verifiable audit trail.

This makes them an ideal fit for our TSX/SEV-inspired vision of an uncapturable, open-source development and deployment platform.