# Autonomous development

> How a task turns into code.

Once the formulation is approved, Buff works autonomously. This section explains how that process works.

- [Task lifecycle](/en/docs/pipeline/lifecycle)
- [Decomposition and atoms](/en/docs/pipeline/decomposition)
- [Execution scheme](/en/docs/pipeline/execution-scheme)
- [Run control](/en/docs/pipeline/run-control)
- [Metrics and tokens](/en/docs/pipeline/metrics)