Stripe's 'Minions' agents write more than 1,000 merged pull requests a week
By Stripe (Alistair Gray)Built and shared by Stripe (Alistair Gray), not by me. Summarised from the public sources below. Check them before you rely on a number.
- Who
- Stripe (Alistair Gray)
- Category
- Software development
- Source
- Web
- Dates
- Published 9 Feb 2026 · Found 17 Oct 2026
Stripe built its own coding agents, called Minions, that take a task from a Slack thread and deliver a pull request that passes CI and is ready for review. Each week more than a thousand merged PRs are written entirely by Minions; engineers review them but write none of the code.
What they built
The agent loop runs on Stripe's own fork of Block's open-source coding agent goose. Engineers usually start a Minion by tagging a Slack app in the thread where the change is being discussed, and the agent reads the whole thread and its links as context. It creates a branch, runs CI and opens a PR from Stripe's template. Other internal systems can also start Minions, for example to fix flaky tests automatically.
The result
More than 1,000 pull requests merged each week are produced entirely by Minions (self-reported by Stripe). Every change is still reviewed by a human.
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