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Fix Production Errors While You Sleep
A walkthrough for wiring Sentry into a Hoplite automation. New errors get picked up on a schedule, reproduced with a failing test, and fixed in a pull request you review over coffee. Takes about ten minutes to set up.
Announcing Automations
Agents on a schedule. Describe the work once, pick a cadence, and Hoplite runs it in a fresh sandbox every time, ending in a pull request a human reviews. Available today on every plan.
Introducing Hoplite
Coding agents can finish real work now. The way we run them hasn't caught up: one laptop, one terminal, a human watching a spinner. Hoplite moves agents into isolated cloud sandboxes and makes the pull request the interface. Backed by Y Combinator.
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Ship a cross-repository change with coding agents
Coordinate backend and frontend changes with compatible contracts, separate pull requests, and explicit integration checks.
5 MCP workflows that give coding agents useful context
Choose MCP tools by the missing information in a task, and give each connection a clear access boundary.
Measure coding-agent results beyond tokens and lines of code
Track accepted changes, review effort, cycle time, and regressions without confusing activity with impact.
How to run a framework migration with coding agents
Break a framework migration into reviewable batches, preserve behavior, and verify the combined application before rollout.
From vulnerability alert to verified patch: an agent workflow
Give a coding agent a bounded dependency patch with explicit compatibility checks and review requirements.
A weekly coding agent routine for technical debt
Use a scheduled investigation and small reviewed changes to make repository maintenance manageable.
Keep documentation in sync with code using a scheduled agent
Schedule a bounded documentation check that verifies changed commands and opens a reviewable pull request.
7 coding agent automations you can put to work this week
Seven bounded recipes for recurring repository work, with explicit triggers, stop conditions, and review expectations.
Evaluate a coding agent on 30 real backlog tickets
A practical study design for measuring accepted work, failed attempts and reviewer effort across a real backlog.
Turn team conventions into agent instructions and reusable skills
Put standing rules in project instructions, repeatable procedures in repository skills and task details in the prompt.
Hand a coding-agent task to a teammate without starting over
Make an agent task transferable with a shared thread, a pushed branch, a draft pull request and a clear next action.
Bring your local agent context to the cloud without starting over
Import useful session history and skills into Hoplite, with clear boundaries around credentials and project state.
Move an active coding-agent task to the cloud without losing the thread
A preflight and recovery checklist for transferring a live task, including conversation, repository state, and environment checks.
Hand off Claude Code or Codex to the cloud and keep the task moving
Use the Hoplite CLI to create a cloud thread from a local agent session and understand exactly what transfers.
Choose a coding model using the work your team actually does
Compare coding models on representative tasks, review effort, retries and cost before choosing a default.
MacBook overheating while coding agents run? Check what they started
Identify the processes behind sustained heat, reduce unnecessary local work, or move the agents to cloud sandboxes so the laptop stops running builds.
Coding agents keep running your Mac out of memory. What to check first
Use memory pressure and process ownership to diagnose RAM exhaustion, reduce concurrency, or move the agents' browsers and test workers into cloud sandboxes.
Why your MacBook gets slow when you run several coding agents
Find whether parallel agents are limited by local compute, memory, services, or a remote model, or skip the tuning and give each agent its own cloud sandbox.
Stop parallel coding agents fighting over ports and dev servers
Separate runtime resources as well as branches so parallel coding tasks test the application they actually changed.
How to run parallel coding agents without conflicting changes
Split agent work by dependency and ownership, isolate execution, and verify the combined result before merging.
Using Hoplite to build Hoplite
What our published use of Hoplite says about delegation and a workflow for making agent work reviewable.
Beyond the first Sentry automation: dedupe, prioritize, and verify fixes
Build a bounded error-triage workflow that checks existing work, reproduces failures, and reports uncertainty.
From Slack thread to pull request
Turn a Slack bug report into a bounded coding task, decide which repository it belongs to, and review the result against the original failure.
From Linear issue to tested pull request
Turn a Linear issue into an implementation task with clear acceptance checks, decide what the agent may touch in the tracker, and review the result against the ticket.
What should a cloud coding agent be allowed to access?
Understand Hoplite's source-control boundary, sandbox secrets, tool approvals and the access decisions your team still needs to make.
Verify agent work with tests and a browser
Use a reproducible UI bug to connect regression tests, runtime checks, and review evidence to the same code change.
Keep your Claude Code task moving after you close your laptop
Move the task into a cloud execution environment before your laptop sleeps, with a clear handoff and review plan.
What does a merged agent pull request actually cost?
Measure agent costs across inference, reported compute charges, failed attempts and human review.
How to review AI-generated pull requests without becoming the bottleneck
Ask agents for focused diffs and useful verification, then return feedback precise enough for the agent to act on.
The agent-ready repository checklist: setup, secrets, tests and previews
Configure a repository so an agent can install it, run the app and verify its changes in a fresh Hoplite sandbox.
What to delegate to a coding agent: 12 tasks and ready-to-use briefs
Choose bounded tasks and give the agent acceptance criteria, verification steps and a clear point at which to stop.
Cloud coding agents: from local setup to a tested pull request
Set up a cloud coding-agent workflow that can run your app, verify a change and return a pull request you can review.