Pit Crew

Building an automated
coding pipeline
with Claude Code

backlog → pull request, hands-free

Brianna Workman
2026
The Problem

We use powerful tools
one at a time

a prompt
a skill
hooks? (what even are hooks?)
02
The Idea

Stop prompting steps.
Run loops.

discover
→
plan
→
execute
→
verify
→
iterate
03
The Thesis

Closed loops: you design the path

Open
wide space, exploratory
the agent roams
burns tokens
loose standard = slop machine
Closed
a path you designed
an eval at every step
bounded budgets
the standard keeps it honest
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LIVE · issue #12
kick off the pipeline


          

        

      

      

        

        

      

    


  

  






  

    

    
LIVE · the return

  

  
return to the PR

  






  

    
Your Turn

    

    
The talk is in the repo

    

      

        
a verify script — define done

        
a permission allowlist — define may

        
hooks — define never

        
rules + CLAUDE.md — teach the repo

        
bounded loops — design the path

      

      

        

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