“Across all four, the same patterns showed up: Slack as the universal entry point, pre-warmed ephemeral sandboxes, async fire-and-forget that produces PRs, human review as the merge gate, directory-scoped context files (CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md), bounded CI retries, and MCP as the tool-integration standard.”
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From “Meet Hoplites: How Paxos is Redesigning Software Delivery Around Human-Directed Agents”, found 2026-10-14.
The four are Stripe’s Minions, Ramp’s Inspect, Spotify’s Honk and Paxos’s own Hoplites. A useful checklist of what company agent factories have converged on.