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Shannon Lowder

01 Sep 2009
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68 of my 74 pending changes weren't drift. They were merged and never applied.

Keep "merged" and "applied" as two separate facts, and put the apply on a schedule. That is the rule my deployment workflow runs on, and it is the last of the four I am covering in this series. The short answer is that a merge produces

By Shannon Lowder 28 Oct 2026

68% of my agents' pull requests were merged by the agent that wrote them

Put every check that has to block a merge inside CI, and let green CI be the approval. That is the rule I run my software factory on now, and I got there by measuring the alternative. The short answer is that a reviewer working beside an auto-merge is

By Shannon Lowder 21 Oct 2026

4 of 5 issues my agents parked for a human didn't need one

Treat an agent's "I can't do this" as a claim, and make the agent prove it with the command that would have failed. That is the rule I apply before any issue in my software factory is allowed to land on my desk. The

By Shannon Lowder 14 Oct 2026

33 scheduled jobs, and not one of them consumed a queue

Give every state in your workflow a named consumer on a schedule. That is the first rule I hold for an agent-run software factory, and it is the first of four I tightened in September. The short answer is that agents are very good at creating work, and nothing

By Shannon Lowder 07 Oct 2026
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