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Building a Software Factory: How Much Should You Delegate to the Agent?

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  • mastra
  • workflow-design
  • slack
  • dependabot

A software factory is not all-or-nothing autonomy. The useful question is how much scope an agent has earned, and where you should stop at read-only recommendations instead of full execution.

In this first episode, I build a read-only Dependabot triage agent in TypeScript with Mastra. It pulls the PR, reads the release notes you would normally skip, and posts a merge-or-hold recommendation to Slack so the factory starts with judgment before it earns action.

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