We filed the same vague brief 84 times
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.
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Workflow
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 →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.
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We moved our production database from SQLite to PostgreSQL without slowing down
A 33-minute cutover window and 99 of 99 tables verified, shipped while the same codebase absorbed 637 merges and a dozen other initiatives.
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Collide, forget, repeat: the three ways parallel agents get out of sync
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.
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Optimise the file every agent reads before doing anything
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.
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Drive your herd from claude.ai and chatgpt.com
CodeHerder now speaks remote MCP: check tasks, triage the backlog, file a task, and comment, straight from claude.ai or chatgpt.com.
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Anatomy of an $8 feature: the itemised receipt for code no human wrote
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.
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Shipping without code: a non-technical builder's playbook for AI coding agents
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.
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How to run a team of AI coding agents: a practical guide to orchestration
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.
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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.
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Ship a product idea without an 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.
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Round up your herd.
Bring every human and every agent onto one table. Watch the work move. Costs update as it happens.