Minion: Agent-Ready Dev Platform Behind 11% of Merged PRs
summary
Uber’s Minion platform generates 11% of merged PRs by plugging specialist agents into CI and remote DevPod environments to automate toil like tests, diffs, and review routing. Agents accept prompts, run CI checks, and complete 50–70% of validation loops so engineers only handle the hard decisions. Shepherd coordinates mass upgrades and Shepherd runs migrations across hundreds of millions of lines of code, while internal tools handle test generation, code review, and review routing to make agent-driven work measurable and rollable.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Uber's compounding developer platform bets
- 3:22Minion starts with toil, not novelty
- 6:07Rolling agents out where the pain lives
- 9:01Shepard and evergreen engineering
- 10:57Adoption by control, not mandate
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