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Event-Driven Workflows

Trigger agents automatically from errors, alerts, and CI failures — not just human requests.

The most powerful agentic workflows are triggered by events, not humans. Hook error trackers, monitors, and CI to dispatch agents automatically.

Event Source  ──►  Issue Tracker  ──►  Agent Triggered  ──►  PR Opened
(Sentry error)     (Linear ticket)     (investigates +        (ready for
                                        writes fix)            review)
  • Sentry error → agent fix — ticket auto-created, agent reads the stack trace, opens a PR with a fix or reproduction test
  • Failing CI → agent debug — agent investigates logs, identifies root cause, files a detailed bug report
  • Performance regression → agent investigate — Datadog alert fires, agent identifies the culprit commit
  • Dependency CVE → agent patch — Dependabot flags a vulnerability, agent evaluates and opens a patch PR

Agent output should always be a PR or a comment — never direct production changes. Deduplicate on error fingerprint so the same error doesn't spawn 50 agents.