Set Up an Autonomous Developer That Fits Your Workflow
A step-by-step operating model for running a coding agent through your existing tracker, repo, and review step, gated by planning and risk scoring.
Practical posts on turning recurring work into controlled Task Machine workflows with approvals, checks, agents on your own machines, and a history you can read.
A step-by-step operating model for running a coding agent through your existing tracker, repo, and review step, gated by planning and risk scoring.
When an agent's work fails a check, it needs an owner, the evidence, and a next action. That is inbox work, not another alert to scroll past.
Most work you hand an agent has no automatic pass or fail. Here is how to decide it is good enough without redoing it yourself.
Autonomous agents can run up real costs through retry loops and runaway work. Set budgets, retry limits, and stop conditions before the spend, not after.
Why reliable agent work depends on verification, context, approvals, and durable workflow history more than on better agent interfaces.
Why boards help visibility but fail to provide the approvals, verification, history, and control recurring agent work needs.