The first version of our agent pipeline let the coding agent run the git and deploy steps. It didn't fail often, but when it did, it failed in a different way each time, and I couldn't debug that. Today roughly 90% of the pipeline is plain scripted code, and the agent does one job.

I'm Panth, and I lead the software team at Oizom, where Envizom is our environmental monitoring platform. Two days ago I wrote the short version : the eight steps that run after a developer drags a ticket to Git Push. This is the long one. It follows one ticket through every column of the board and goes through each job we took off the agent, with the reason, then what it costs and what broke.

The first version

Before agents, our problems were ordinary ones. Envizom is several repos: hardware drivers, a simulator, a backend and a frontend. A new developer needed days to get a working local setup.…