Over a thousand pull requests merged each week at Stripe are completely minion-produced
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, 
Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
Alistair Gray, Software engineer, Leverage team. Works on the team that builds the internal tooling Gray writes about; an employee describing the employer's own tool, so Gray has reason to present it well.
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Alistair Gray (Stripe), “Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents”, Stripe developer blog, 2026-02-09. https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-coding-agents Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/stripe-over-thousand-pull-requests-merged-each-week-2026
we built a central internal MCP server called Toolshed, which hosts more than 400 MCP tools
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
while they're human-reviewed, they contain no human-written code.
Alistair GraySoftware engineer, Leverage team · Practitioner, Stripe
Post: Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents, Stripe developer blog, February 9, 2026.
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