What If AI Coding Agents Worked Like CI Pipelines?

Most AI coding tools have a weird hidden cost: They use an LLM to decide what another LLM should do next. That means you are spending tokens on routing , not just on the actual coding. I built RedQueen to flip that model. What is RedQueen? RedQueen is an open-source, self-hosted orchestrator for AI coding agents. Instead of asking an LLM, “what should happen next?”, RedQueen uses a deterministic state machine to move work through a software development pipeline: spec → code → review → test → hum