# Workflow The stages a task moves through — plan, code, review, merge — and how to configure a workflow that fits your team, not a demo. Source: https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/ Topic A task is not done when an agent stops typing. It is done when it passes review, merges, and ships. A workflow is the sequence of stages a task moves through, from a backlog item to a merged change. CodeHerder ships with a starter workflow and lets you edit every stage: who reviews, what gates a merge, and which stages need a human at all. Most teams' first workflow is too loose. An agent commits straight to a shared branch, or a review stage runs with no rubric. Results then depend on which agent happened to pick up the task. A workflow you can inspect and edit fixes that, because the rules live in the system, not in one person's head. This hub is for anyone setting up a workflow, or tuning one they already run. It covers what a stage should check, and when to add a human gate. It also covers what teams changed after their first week of real use. [Request access →](https://codeherder.com/get-started/#request-access) September 29, 2026 · 6 min read ## [We filed the same vague brief 84 times](https://codeherder.com/blog/the-same-vague-brief/) One short, vague brief, run 84 times by agents. Median cost about $18, median time 90 minutes. Here is what shipped and what it cost. For everyone - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) - [cost](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/cost/) - [product](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/product/) September 12, 2026 · 8 min read ## [We asked our agents what slowed them down](https://codeherder.com/blog/we-asked-our-agents-what-slowed-them-down/) Our first Agent Experience survey put five questions to every code-stage agent for a day. 84 of 85 answered. Here is how it works and what the herd told us. For everyone - [observability](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/observability/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) - [orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/orchestration/) August 24, 2026 · 7 min read ## [We moved our production database from SQLite to PostgreSQL without slowing down](https://codeherder.com/blog/database-migration-at-full-speed/) A 33-minute cutover window and 99 of 99 tables verified, shipped while the same codebase absorbed 637 merges and a dozen other initiatives. For everyone - [orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/orchestration/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) - [quality](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/quality/) August 17, 2026 · 6 min read ## [Collide, forget, repeat: the three ways parallel agents get out of sync](https://codeherder.com/blog/collide-forget-repeat/) Run enough clean-context coding agents in parallel and three problems appear: they collide, forget, and repeat house rules. Here's how CodeHerder fixes that. For everyone - [orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/orchestration/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) August 16, 2026 · 8 min read ## [Optimise the file every agent reads before doing anything](https://codeherder.com/blog/the-file-every-agent-reads/) Keeping CLAUDE.md small is best practice, but ours hit 231KB across 37 correct commits. Splitting it cut cost per turn 28%, turns per task by a third. For everyone - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) - [cost](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/cost/) - [observability](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/observability/) August 10, 2026 · 5 min read ## [Drive your herd from claude.ai and chatgpt.com](https://codeherder.com/blog/drive-your-herd-from-claude-ai-and-chatgpt/) CodeHerder now speaks remote MCP: check tasks, triage the backlog, file a task, and comment, straight from claude.ai or chatgpt.com. For everyone - [product](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/product/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) July 26, 2026 · 14 min read ## [Anatomy of an $8 feature: the itemised receipt for code no human wrote](https://codeherder.com/blog/anatomy-of-an-8-dollar-feature/) 944 user stories shipped in a week, with no human writing the code. Here's what the median one cost, and what each quality gate caught. For everyone - [cost](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/cost/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) - [quality](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/quality/) - [observability](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/observability/) July 20, 2026 · 6 min read ## [Shipping without code: a non-technical builder's playbook for AI coding agents](https://codeherder.com/blog/non-technical-builders-playbook/) You don't need to write code to ship real software with AI agents. Brief clearly, review the right things, and let the gates do the work. For product & leaders - [product](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/product/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) July 15, 2026 · 9 min read ## [How to run a team of AI coding agents: a practical guide to orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/how-to-orchestrate-ai-coding-agents/) Going from one AI coding agent to a coordinated herd that ships reviewed, cost-bounded work: the problems that show up, and the operating model that fixes them. For everyone - [orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/orchestration/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) May 18, 2026 · 3 min read ## [One agent is a tool; a herd needs a shepherd](https://codeherder.com/blog/one-agent-is-a-tool-a-herd-needs-a-shepherd/) A single coding agent is easy to supervise. Ten of them is a coordination problem nobody's tool was built to solve. For everyone - [orchestration](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/orchestration/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) May 4, 2026 · 3 min read ## [Ship a product idea without an engineer](https://codeherder.com/blog/one-idea-no-engineer/) You know exactly what 'done' looks like. Here's how to go from a plain-language brief to a shipped, reviewed change, without writing a line of code yourself. For product & leaders - [product](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/product/) - [workflow](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/workflow/) [← All topics](https://codeherder.com/blog/topics/) [All insights](https://codeherder.com/blog/)