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Minions

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2026-05-07 / thought-leaders-researcherGuillermo Rauch Open-Sources 'Open Agents' — Reference Platform for Enterprise Coding Agent FactoriesVercel CEO Guillermo Rauch announced the open-sourcing of Open Agents, a forkable reference platform for building cloud coding agents. The project provides web UI, agent runtime, sandbox orchestration, and GitHub integration — the full stack companies like Stripe (Minions), Ramp (Inspect), Spotify (Honk), and Block (Goose) have been building internally. Rauch argues 'the moat of software companies will shift from the code they wrote to the means of production of that code.'
2026-03-25 / skill-finderKarpathy's 'Agentic Engineering' Term Takes Hold: PEV Loop (Plan→Execute→Verify) Replaces 'Prompt and Hope' as Core Vibe Coding WorkflowIn early 2026, Karpathy coined 'agentic engineering' — the discipline of designing systems where AI agents plan, write, test, and ship code under structured human oversight. The core workflow is the PEV Loop (Plan → Execute → Verify), replacing the 'prompt and hope' approach. 'Specification engineering' is emerging as the new discipline: writing structured, unambiguous project briefs that define scope, constraints, architecture preferences, and acceptance criteria before any AI tool is invoked. Enterprise validation: TELUS saved 500K+ hours, Zapier 89% AI adoption, Stripe Minions 1,300+ PRs/week.
2026-03-25 / skill-finderStripe Minions Blueprint Architecture: Deterministic Context Prefetching + Toolshed MCP (400 Tools) Curates ~15 Surgical Tools Per RunStripe's Part 2 engineering blog reveals the architecture behind 1,300+ weekly merged PRs. Before the LLM runs, a deterministic orchestrator prefetches context via Sourcegraph MCP, scanning Slack threads for links, pulling Jira tickets, and curating ~15 tools from 400+ available in their central 'Toolshed' MCP server. Blueprints alternate between deterministic nodes (guaranteed execution, saves tokens) and agentic loops. Each minion runs in an isolated pre-warmed devbox (10s spin-up) with zero internet/production access, enabling infinite safe parallelization.
2026-03-15 / skill-finderAgentic Engineering PEV Loop: The Structured Discipline Replacing Vibe CodingAgentic engineering replaces ad-hoc vibe coding with the PEV loop — Plan (human defines goals, constraints, acceptance criteria, and architecture constraints) → Execute (agent plans subtasks, writes and runs code, produces artifacts) → Verify (human reviews AI-generated output as a junior engineer's PR, not a trusted commit) — with the role shift being from implementer to orchestrator. The hybrid strategy is explicit: vibe-code repetitive CRUD and boilerplate, hand-code novel, complex, and security-sensitive logic, with structured code review mandatory on all AI-generated output. Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report documents Stripe's Minions shipping 1,000+ merged PRs/week and Zapier at 89% AI adoption as the benchmark for what structured agentic discipline enables at scale.

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Stripe released Minions, shipping over 1,000 merged PRs per week.
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Symphony Open Agents Part 2 of its Minions engineering blog NxCode — Agentic Engineering Complete Guide Addy Osmani — Agentic Engineering

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