Automaton | (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's Software

Automate Reliably. Scale Confidently.

Automaton is (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's production-grade automation toolchain that unifies your CI jobs across platforms using ONLY plain shell and PowerShell scripts bootstrapped by a single polyglot script. This includes manual human intervention capability where one can debug the processes at will without affecting the CI pipelines.

It solves the following business problems:

• No Vendor Lock-In - Take full control over your production process entirely. Your pipelines live in your repository, not in any provider's console. Hence, they outlive any single vendor's pricing or roadmap changes.
• Zero Runtime Dependencies - It just works! Automaton boots with what each OS already ships: a POSIX shell on Linux/macOS, PowerShell on Windows. Nothing to install before first use. In fact, use Automaton to install the tools and set up the environment instead!
• Manual Intervention Capable - Test any CI job on your own laptop before it touches CI: no more silly, noisy "fix CI" commits.
• Full Downstream Freedom - It merely streamlines all triggers into your CI shell scripts. You develop your own processes therein with absolute freedom!
• Lightweight to Install - Just unpack a few shell and PowerShell scripts. No complicated installer. No unused bloat.
• Tested Across Platforms - GitHub.com, GitLab.com, Codeberg.org, self-hosted Forgejo, etc. This project tests on them whenever runners are available.
• Learnt From The Past - 2nd generation development based on learning from its predecessor: the (Holloway) Chew, Kean Ho's AutomataCI.