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My AI coding and review agents work through the same review gates as the human team

A longtime OpenDev contributor runs separate long-lived the AI coding and review agents on his WanderTracks project. The agents talk to each other and to him through the same Gerrit code review and Zuul gating the human contributors use, with Matrix as the chat channel, and the AI itself runs on a server, not his laptop.

How it works

  1. Run the AI on a server
  2. Give one long-lived agent the coding role and another the review role
  3. Agents exchange work through Gerrit reviews
  4. Zuul gating checks their changes like anyone else's
  5. He talks with them over Matrix

Why it’s worth knowing

The safety idea is not a new agent feature. It is treating the agent like an unknown contributor and letting 15 years of review tooling do the holding.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on youtube.com. See the original ↗

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