The Backlog Is the Orchestrator: An Autonomous Test → Plan → Implement Agent Pipeline

I have a project that four AI agents work on while I’m not at my computer. One drives the application end to end and files bugs. One reads a bug and proposes how to fix it. I approve or push back. One implements the approved plan and opens a pull request. A fourth runs a long-horizon soak overnight, looking for drift that no short session can see. There is no orchestrator. No message queue, no coordinator agent, no shared database, no framework. The agents never talk to each other and none of them holds state between runs. ...

July 27, 2026 · 15 min · Tyler