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Announcing the background agents landscape
The infra that Stripe, Ramp, and Spotify built from scratch, you don't have to.
How Claude Code escapes its own denylist and sandbox
The adversary can reason now, and our security tools weren't built for that.
The last year of localhost
Background agents humming across a software assembly line can't run on a laptop.
More recent highlights from our blog
Ona is the background agent infra Ramp had to build
Stripe built their agent platform before GPT-3 existed. Ramp hand-rolled theirs on Modal and Cloudflare. Here's the full stack breakdown to help you weigh build vs buy.
Spec-driven design: why planning is the new coding
How 30 minutes of spec writing and 10 minutes of execution produced a PSX-styled 3D world with real Google city data.
Tackling Agent Reliability: Rethinking the Todo Tool at Ona
How we replaced seven agent tools with one, moved from edge-triggered to level-triggered state, and built runtime guardrails to keep agents on track.
The rise of the citizen developer
Figma made everyone a designer. Standardized environments, optimized for agents, do the same for software.
The enterprise agent problem Claude Code wasn't built to solve
Claude Code is a great thin harness. Enterprises need the layer underneath.
A visual guide to self-driving codebases
Today we are announcing: background-agents.com - here's why
Planning large-scale git migrations with Ona Automations
An Ona Automation that analyzes repos, dependencies, and tooling across hundreds of repositories in minutes.
Automating code review with Ona Automations
Most AI code review tools read your diffs. Ona runs your code, checks your tickets, and comments on the PR before a human ever looks at it.
The 10x engineer: autonomous backlog execution with Ona Automations
Ona's Automation that ships code, cleans tech debt, and fixes vulnerabilities — all before the team has had their morning coffee.
From spec to shipped: automating the full feature delivery lifecycle
How Ona's engineering team ships features end-to-end. From spec to merged PR.