Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents | Stripe Dot Dev Blog
Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.
Across the industry, agentic coding has gone from new and exciting to table stakes, and as underlying models continue to improve, unattended coding agents have gone from possibility to reality. Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents. They’re fully unattended and built to one-shot tasks. Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced, and while they’re human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code. Our developers can still plan and collaborate with agents such as Claude and Cursor, but in a world where one of our most constrained resources…
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