--- schema: 1 type: video title: >- The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp description: >- Warp open sourced about three months ago and went from roughly 20,000 GitHub stars to over 60,000, with thousands of pull requests and hundreds of contributors arriving at once. Rather than let agents fire off code, Safia Abdalla's team put them inside the repository's process. File an issue and an agent triages it, researches the codebase, and asks you questions when the request is too abstract to act on. Every pull request then goes through an agent managed review, and nobody on the team gets pinged until an agent has approved it. The humans only ever see the high signal ones. That is one payoff of a principle she applies all the way down the cloud agent platform, that a platform should absorb complexity before it reaches the user. Agents need somewhere to run, so sandboxes come both managed and self hosted, because teams doing serious work already run their own infrastructure. Developers are attached to their harness, so the platform accepts any of them while keeping conversation state and artifacts consistent across all of them. Real engineering rarely fits in one prompt, so agents orchestrate sub agents, either by prompt or through an API that exposes every primitive in the stack. People outside engineering at Warp used that API to build their own Slack tooling for triaging social mentions. Abdalla closes by pushing back on the phrase software factory, which she thinks loses the people in it, and offers a potter's workshop instead: stations, sourcing, verification, and an owner who keeps refining the system around the work. Speaker info: - https://github.com/captainsafia - https://x.com/captainsafia - https://captainsafia.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Eight years of building developer tooling 2:43 - Why the work moved to the cloud 3:35 - Absorb complexity before it reaches the user 5:18 - Multi harness support without fragmentation 6:59 - One agent is rarely enough 7:53 - Orchestration by prompt, and by API 9:33 - What non engineers built on the SDK 11:16 - Agents inside the open source repo 14:44 - Why the term software factory falls short 17:14 - The workshop as a serious system --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/L173Z8DpaJg-youtube-e1ff94019e22b78baf75 Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- canonical: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-agent-behind-the-curtain-building-the-oz-cloud-7059c71c9848 markdown: >- https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/video/the-agent-behind-the-curtain-building-the-oz-cloud-7059c71c9848.md llms: null parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T04:45:15.919Z' language: null children: [] videoId: L173Z8DpaJg durationSeconds: 1251 publishedAt: '2026-08-22T17:30:13.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 25 endSeconds: 170 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=25' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 170 endSeconds: 181 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=170' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 181 endSeconds: 215 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=181' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 226 endSeconds: 327 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=226' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 327 endSeconds: 338 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=327' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 426 endSeconds: 439 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=426' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 439 endSeconds: 473 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=439' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 484 endSeconds: 573 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=484' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 573 endSeconds: 586 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=573' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 586 endSeconds: 686 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=586' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 699 endSeconds: 890 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=699' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 890 endSeconds: 901 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=890' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 901 endSeconds: 1034 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=901' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 1044 endSeconds: 1251 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/L173Z8DpaJg?t=1044' heldReason: rights --- # The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform — Safia Abdalla, Warp Warp open sourced about three months ago and went from roughly 20,000 GitHub stars to over 60,000, with thousands of pull requests and hundreds of contributors arriving at once. Rather than let agents fire off code, Safia Abdalla's team put them inside the repository's process. File an issue and an agent triages it, researches the codebase, and asks you questions when the request is too abstract to act on. Every pull request then goes through an agent managed review, and nobody on the team gets pinged until an agent has approved it. The humans only ever see the high signal ones. That is one payoff of a principle she applies all the way down the cloud agent platform, that a platform should absorb complexity before it reaches the user. Agents need somewhere to run, so sandboxes come both managed and self hosted, because teams doing serious work already run their own infrastructure. Developers are attached to their harness, so the platform accepts any of them while keeping conversation state and artifacts consistent across all of them. Real engineering rarely fits in one prompt, so agents orchestrate sub agents, either by prompt or through an API that exposes every primitive in the stack. People outside engineering at Warp used that API to build their own Slack tooling for triaging social mentions. Abdalla closes by pushing back on the phrase software factory, which she thinks loses the people in it, and offers a potter's workshop instead: stations, sourcing, verification, and an owner who keeps refining the system around the work. Speaker info: - https://github.com/captainsafia - https://x.com/captainsafia - https://captainsafia.com Timestamps: 0:00 - Eight years of building developer tooling 2:43 - Why the work moved to the cloud 3:35 - Absorb complexity before it reaches the user 5:18 - Multi harness support without fragmentation 6:59 - One agent is rarely enough 7:53 - Orchestration by prompt, and by API 9:33 - What non engineers built on the SDK 11:16 - Agents inside the open source repo 14:44 - Why the term software factory falls short 17:14 - The workshop as a serious system --- Watch along with the corrected transcript, summary, timestamps and resources on this talk's official AIE page: https://ai.engineer/talks/L173Z8DpaJg-youtube-e1ff94019e22b78baf75 Join our upcoming AI Engineer conferences (see https://ai.engineer landing page): - AIEi Shanghai, November 5–6 — the first for meeting top Chinese labs and engineers - AIE CODE in SF, November 10–12 — the top AI Coding conference returns - AIEi Sydney, December 7–8 — the first AIEi run alongside NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney --- Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer/explore/video/the-agent-behind-the-curtain-building-the-oz-cloud-7059c71c9848 · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks > Missing: no stored document chunks are available.