Spring Boot is a Java natural fit for insurance / insurtech. GreatCTO auto-detects both — adds the insurance archetype overlay, wires insurance-specific gates, and runs 34 specialist agents around your existing Spring Boot workflow.
GreatCTO reads your pom.xml / build.gradle and detects spring-boot + insurance archetype from signals: imports, file structure, env vars, README hints.
Attaches the insurance archetype overlay: archetype-specific reviewer + compliance gates. Override if your specifics differ; the defaults are sensible for Spring Boot-style projects.
qa-engineer runs ./gradlew check / SpotBugs / JaCoCo coverage; security-officer scans for deserialization sinks + Spring SpEL injection; performance-engineer profiles JVM + GC patterns.
Bugs you've hit before in other Spring Boot projects (connection-pool exhaustion, ORM N+1 queries, retry storms) — the agent's Step 0 includes the prior detection order. MTTR drops 94 % on second occurrence (methodology).
$ cd my-spring-boot-app && npx great-cto init ✓ scanning manifests… found manifest ✓ stack: spring-boot (Java) ✓ archetype: insurance ✓ overlay: applied ✓ 34 agents ready $ /start "add insurance feature" ▸ architect drafting ARCH-insurance.md… ▸ pm decomposing into beads tasks… ⚐ gate:plan — your approval needed
Approve → 3 senior-devs run in parallel worktrees → 5 reviewers fan out in parallel → gate:ship → deploy. One real run walked stage-by-stage: /proof.
No black-box "AI does it all" loop. GreatCTO is a deterministic state machine — 8 stages, 22 nodes, 2 human gates. Every node maps to a real agent on GitHub. Inspect the state machine →
$ npx great-cto init
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