
Two Repos, Twenty Minutes, One Nosy Agent
A few weeks ago I had my agents continue work on CAST, and after some progress I handed two tickets to a team of five software agents and went away to make coffee. Twenty minutes later both tickets were closed, the code was merged, and the only things I’d typed were two tracker commands and some answers to questions. Great success right? Then I read the transcripts… But before we get to that If you are just joining me, I’ve been building a thing called CAST for a while now. Collaborative Autonomous Software Team. The pitch is small: tickets are the unit of work, a product-manager agent refines them, a developer agent builds them, a reviewer agent checks the result against the acceptance criteria, and a human merges. Nothing moves between those states unless a label changes on the ticket, and every label change is an event the next agent wakes up on. ...