“This ensures that at most, the repository is 30 minutes out of date”

— Ramp · Sandbox

Quote · builders.ramp.com

From “Why We Built Our Own Background Agent”, found 2026-10-14.

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Every Inspect session starts from a repository image rebuilt every 30 minutes, so isolation comes with a known staleness bound. Inspect writes about 30% of merged PRs in Ramp’s frontend and backend repositories. The Pragmatic Engineer later reported 75%.