The work that never gets scheduled.
Every team has a list of things that genuinely need doing and never make it into a sprint. Dependency upgrades. Flaky tests. Small bugs with clear reproductions. Deprecation warnings that become an incident in eighteen months.
Label a ticket. Review a pull request.
You mark a ticket for the agent — a label, an assignment, an @mention, whatever your team already does. It works in a real environment, so it can reproduce the bug, write the test that proves it, fix it, and run your whole suite before it says it is done.
What comes back is an ordinary pull request in your repository, with the reproduction and the test results attached. Your team reviews it exactly the way they review each other's.
If it gets stuck or the ticket is ambiguous, it asks in the ticket rather than guessing.
- Mon 09:00 Picked up ticket #2841 labelled for the agent started
- Mon 09:05 Reproduced the bug and wrote a test for it working
- Mon 11:38 Fixed it — 214 tests pass 3 files changed done
- Mon 11:39 Opened a pull request with the reproduction attached waiting
- Mon 14:02 You approved it approved
- Mon 14:32 Shipped, then watched for 30 minutes no errors verified
Small risk, real value, an honest signal.
The worst case is a bad pull request
Which your team already knows how to handle. You are not betting on the agent being right — you are betting that reviewing its work is cheaper than doing the work. You can test that in a week.
You get a number, not an anecdote
Tickets closed, cost per ticket, how often a reviewer had to correct it — and how those move over a quarter. Not a story about one impressive afternoon.
It shakes out the awkward parts early
Your build, your test suite, your credentials, your review process, your approvals. If something in your setup is going to be difficult, this finds it in week one rather than month four.
One ticket is a demo. A trend is a result.
The version worth having is not one impressive pull request. It is many tickets across several teams at once, with the cost broken down per team and per repository, and the backlog visibly shrinking rather than a list of individual successes.
Your tracker stays up to date on its own — tickets move, comments get posted, links get attached — so nobody is maintaining a second view of the same work by hand.
- · Dependency and framework upgrades, where a test suite has your back
- · Flaky tests with a known reproduction
- · Bugs where the ticket already contains the steps
- · Deprecation warnings across a whole codebase
- · Test coverage on a module nobody has touched in a year
- · Mechanical refactors — a renamed API, a moved package, a changed convention
Pick a ticket you would otherwise not get to.
Bring it to the demo. We will run it against your repository, and you can judge it from the pull request rather than from anything we say here.