At Zencoder, our mission is to help you ship software faster. Over the past year, we have delivered the best coding agents for your IDE and 20+ other tools like JIRA, GitLab, GitHub, Sentry, Datadog, Snyk, SonarQube. And with the recent launch of Zen Agents, you and we are building a rapidly expanding library of those agents. But so far those agents lived in your IDE.
Today, we're launching autonomous Zen Agents for CI.
Beyond the IDE: AI In Your Infrastructure
Unlike coding assistants tied to your IDE, Zen Agents for CI live in your infrastructure. They can be triggered via webhook and perform high-context engineering tasks without manual input. They can fix code smells for you, add missing unit tests, and docs, and quickly add another pair of “eyes” on the security review. They can pull context from your codebase, issue trackers, recent commits, and repo state. Then, they can autonomously plan the change, generate an implementation, validate with tests, and open a polished pull request. They are secure by design and compliant with your stack, running in your CI, not our servers.
Real Impact Across the Full Development Cycle
Because of the open and extensible nature of Zen Agents platform, you can deploy them across all steps of SDLC. Here are some examples.
Bug Fixing from Issue Trackers: A new bug lands in JIRA, tagged for AI processing. The agent is triggered. It traces the root cause, crafts a fix, and opens a pull request linked to the ticket. Human reviewers only step in to approve.
Automated Localization Enforcement: For every new PR, the agent checks for missing translations. If violations are found, it updates the code to include correct i18n strings and re-submits an updated PR.
Preliminary AI Code Reviews: Every new PR gets an instant first-pass review. The agent highlights potential edge cases, missing tests, and ambiguous naming, giving human reviewers a head start.
Tech Debt Cleanup and Refactoring: The agent can routinely scan for deprecated APIs, outdated dependencies, or code smells. It suggests improvements, performs the upgrade, and submits clean, test-validated PRs.
Automated Test Writing: When a new feature is merged, the agent can identify uncovered logic paths and submit follow-up PRs with additional test coverage. This reduces regressions and boosts confidence.
Documentation: Docs out of date with your code? The agent detects mismatches between inline comments, READMEs, and implementation — and proposes updates. Your docs stay current without devs chasing them.
Security Patch Enforcement: Subscribe to CVE feeds, and when a relevant security issue is published, the agent scans your repo, flags vulnerable packages, and can even propose patches or safer alternatives automatically.
These workflows used to cost you hours of time per week. Now they can run continuously, in the background.
In summary, Zen Agents for CI are designed to help your team ship faster:
- Codify repeatable tasks into agent workflows
- Reduce engineering toil without cutting corners
- Ship continuously, with fewer blockers
- Scale your team without scaling headcount
The result is a more efficient engineering workflow where human creativity and AI capabilities work in harmony, each focusing on what they do best. We think that’s the future. And it’s starting now.
How It Works
You can set up an Autonomous Zen Agent in less than five minutes:
- Install the CLI with one command
- Configure your agent with custom task definitions
- Set up webhook triggers from JIRA, GitHub, Linear, Jira, or your internal tools
Agents then run inside your CI pipeline with full access to your repo, environment, and workflows. No cloud proxying. No roundabout APIs. Everything happens within your trusted infra.
What’s Coming Next
We’re just getting started. Here’s what’s on the near-term roadmap:
- Web admin panel: A browser-based UI to configure, monitor, and orchestrate agents.
- Extending our prebuilt agent library: Deploy common workflows out of the box — bug fixes, refactors, i18n updates, security scans, and more.
- GitLab support: Deeper integrations for GitLab repos and pipelines.
- Multi-agent pipelines: Chain agents together to run multi-stage autonomous workflows (e.g., code change → doc update → test suite).
- Analytics & insights: Visualize where agents save time, what PRs they own, and where automation opportunities lie.
Ready to Transform Your DevOps?
Zen Agents for CI are currently in early access with select engineering teams. If you’re ready to:
- See AI ship real code
- Automate repetitive dev workflows
- Level up your CI with self-operating agents
