“Since CI runs cost tokens, compute, and time, we only have at most two rounds of CI.” — Alistair Gray, Stripe

“Since CI runs cost tokens, compute, and time, we only have at most two rounds of CI.”

— Alistair Gray, Stripe · How do minions work?

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From “Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents”, found 2026-10-14.

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A hard cap instead of letting agents retry until green. After the second push, the branch goes back to a human. Flaky tests that CI detects become tickets a minion can pick up.