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.
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.
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Tech Debt Cleanup and Refactoring: The agent can routinely scan for deprecated APIs, outdated dependencies, or code smells.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Documentation: Docs out of date with your code?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:
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.
You can set up an Autonomous Zen Agent in less than five minutes:
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.
We’re just getting started. Here’s what’s on the near-term roadmap:
Zen Agents for CI are currently in early access with select engineering teams. If you’re ready to: