#25 — 5 Building Blocks for Agents That Run on Their Own
Deploy checks, failing pipelines and overnight alerts keep arriving after the laptop closes. Giving those jobs to an unattended agent takes shared context, visibility into its actions and boundaries it cannot ignore. Andrey Devyatkin and Fernando Piviani unpack five building blocks for autonomous DevOps agents, covering live-data tools, tracing, existing harnesses, GitHub Actions and AWS runtimes, plus the sandbox and network controls that contain each run. What you will learn: Which repetitive engineering jobs offer a clear first trigger How shared context and live reads serve different purposes What to record before an agent's first unattended run How triggers, run length and network placement shape runtime choices Why prompts cannot enforce credential and network boundaries Maybe try B.O.R.I.S, our context layer for AI agents: https://www.getboris.ai Episode page, show notes and links