A consulting team at 8th Light built a multi-agent workflow that automates the journey from a Jira ticket to an initial pull request, achieving a 4x increase in PRs. The system uses a hierarchy of reliability (hooks, specialized agents, project memory), adversarial planning reviews, and self-improvement loops to maintain code quality. Key safety mechanisms include branch-scoped permissions, human-in-the-loop approval, configurable review cycle limits, and build integrity ceilings. The result shifted senior engineers from manual coding to high-level architecture and intent validation.
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