Software Engineering

Orchestrating coding agents from the issue tracker

AI agents pull open software tasks from a project board like Linear, work continuously in dedicated workspaces, and return code or analysis so teams can manage work at the ticket level instead of manually juggling interactive coding sessions.

Why the human is still essential here

Humans still set priorities, define goals, review outputs, and decide whether the work is correct and ready to ship.

How people use this

Linear issue to pull request

When a Linear issue moves into an active state, an AI coding agent can pick it up, work in an isolated branch, and open a draft pull request tied back to the ticket.

Linear + OpenAI Codex / Claude Code

Jira bug queue automation

Assigned Jira bugs can be handed to an autonomous agent that reproduces the issue, proposes a fix, and posts code changes and notes for engineer review.

Jira + Devin

GitHub Issues backlog handling

Teams can route selected GitHub Issues to an agent that implements straightforward fixes or cleanup tasks and returns a PR with linked issue context.

GitHub Issues + GitHub Copilot

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An open-source spec for Codex orchestration: Symphony

To solve this new problem, we built a system called Symphony. Symphony is an agent orchestrator that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents. Every open task gets an agent, agents run continuously, and humans review the results.

This post explains how we created Symphony—resulting in a 500% increase in landed pull requests on some teams—and how to use it to turn your own issue tracker into an always-on agent orchestrator.

Alex Kotliarskyi, Victor Zhu, and Zach BrockOpenAI engineers

Apr 27, 2026