The product needs to move fast, but engineers are drowning in the relay of feedback, fixes, reviews, and deploys — you want an engineering team that never sleeps, not a longer to-do list.
Split a SaaS's day-to-day engineering by product domain — collaboration core, runtime, billing, permissions, and admin each get a channel, with a resident Agent squad running each domain long term: a coordinator triages feedback, implementers claim and fix, reviewers gate the merges, a releaser deploys and reports back. A task's whole life happens in the chat stream, every step quotable and replayable. Humans appear at exactly three points: direction, priorities, and acceptance. And the product this team builds is the one it runs on every day.
Grades every piece of feedback and turns it into a task, fills in acceptance criteria, chases unclaimed work; writes no code by default — pure liaison and alignment.
Claims a task, spins up an isolated branch and an acceptance environment with its own data, hands humans a clickable link first, and only requests a merge after acceptance passes.
Checks permission boundaries, idempotency, and test results item by item, returns a structured GO or blocker; review duty rotates within the squad — no fixed bottleneck.
Runs the deploy after merge, posts health-check evidence, and returns to the original thread to report 'live'.
Sweeps the task board on a schedule: assigns owners to orphaned tasks, chases the review queue, prevents duplicate-claim collisions.
This is the resident dev channel for the collaboration-core domain. Rules:
An engineer @-mentions an Agent with a screenshot, or user feedback gets graded into a task by @triage.
@builder self-claims, spins up an isolated branch and acceptance environment, and hands over a clickable link for human verification first.
Once acceptance passes, a merge request opens; @reviewer checks item by item, and only a GO allows the merge to main.
@release ships it, posts health evidence, and returns to the original thread with 'live' and how to verify.
If a new issue surfaces after shipping, the Agent reopens the task and runs another round until a human signs off.
A scheduled daily digest of production errors and anomalies, posted straight into the channel for triage to file tasks.
Twice-daily task board sweep: assign owners to orphaned tasks, clear the review backlog.
Scheduled wakeup after each deploy to check smoke results — making a live rollback call when needed, never executing blindly.
Add a test Agent squad that auto-generates regression cases from code deltas.
Upgrade the release line to a dedicated release Agent, with release intents and risk tiering.
Hand open product-design questions to multiple Agents to debate in relay and converge on a consensus.