The self-driving codebase: Building Horizon at WorkOS

Horizon is an in-house autonomous code factory developed to enhance software development by automating task orchestration, which traditionally involves human intervention. Inspired by background agent systems like Ramp's Inspect and Stripe's Minions, Horizon is designed to run continuous, event-driven AI coding sessions that manage complex projects end-to-end in a cloud sandbox. It aims to free up human engineers for strategic tasks like requirements gathering and user acceptance testing, while agents handle implementation details and verification processes. The system integrates tightly with existing WorkOS features for security and context management, and utilizes tools like GitHub and Cloudflare to maintain a secure, scalable environment. Horizon is built on a modular architecture, allowing it to evolve with technological advances, and it emphasizes a collaborative workflow where agents and humans work in a feedback loop to improve the platform's efficiency and reliability continuously. The initiative is part of a long-term investment to create a compounding system where each run not only delivers work but also feeds improvements back, aiming for a future where writing code becomes the simplest part of the development process.