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Automating release QA with a bot-driven agent fuzz swarm

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lauren@poteto

i just automated our release and QA process! using Grok Bot i made two Team Bots: sandcastle, my release manager, and poteto, my engineer bot. i added them to Slack and made a new channel for managing releases. first i tell sandcastle that i want to do a cut. it'll DM all the contributors with links to their PRs so they know what goes in the next release and can DM the bot back if they have any blockers or objections. sandcastle then kicks off the build, watches it automatically, and starts up an automated fuzz swarm. usually this is 10+ agents running on Grok 4.7 xhigh to run the build, click around and use it like a real user (using our verification skills and feature map), some are directed while a few are "chaos monkey" clicking things randomly to see what breaks. whenever it finds an issue, i tell it to @ mention my engineer bot poteto, to spin up a Cursor Project to own triaging and fixing all the high pri issues. depending on the severity i may ask it to cherry pick the fix into our release branch and cut a patch release, or if it's a pre-existing issue i still fix it but include in the next release instead that's one more tedious task that Grok Bot now handles for our…

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This reported release workflow connects coordination, testing and repair. A release bot asks contributors about blockers, starts the build, then launches agents to exercise the software. Some follow planned checks; others click unpredictably to look for failures. The author says a separate engineering bot takes responsibility for investigating and fixing important findings.

The human still decides how a discovered problem affects the release. A serious issue can prompt a patch to the release branch, while a pre-existing problem can wait for the next release. The account describes automation around that decision, without reporting a measured reduction in escaped defects. Source.

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