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Plain software, written down.
Notes on speed as respect, bringing your own agent, and refusing the AI-era pivot. From the team building Radial.
Your background agent needs somewhere to pick up the task and file the result
A background agent is defined by two touch-points on your tracker: it picks up a task, and it files the result. Here is where that record should live so the agent can read and write it over an API.
Agentic coding ships the 80%. Your tracker holds the other 20%.
Agentic coding is when an AI agent plans, writes, and tests code with little human input. It ships the functional 80% fast. The durable 20%, the decisions and the record, has to live somewhere. Here is where.
Your Claude Code sub-agents keep losing the thread. Give them one shared record.
Claude Code agents and agent teams are real now, but the moment you run more than one, they lose track of what the others did. Here is where the shared record should live.
An issue tracker your agents can actually drive
Local trackers like Beads give one coding agent a memory. When a team runs several agents and humans need to see the same work, the record has to be hosted, shared, and driveable over MCP and a CLI. Here is what that looks like.
File issues from CI with the Radial CLI and --json
Turn a failed CI job into a filed issue automatically. Install the radial CLI, run radial create with --json, and pipe the returned RAD-123 identifier back into your pipeline: no dashboard, no seat cost.
Scoped API keys: one key per agent, read-only, triage-only, or full
Give each agent its own Radial API key with exactly the access it needs: read-only, triage-only, or full write. Least privilege for an agent fleet, plus how to mint, scope, and revoke keys from the CLI.
What is an MCP server? And how to point one at your issue tracker
An MCP server is the thing an AI agent connects to so it can use tools and data outside its own context. Here is what that means, how it differs from a plain API, and how to point one at your issue tracker so your agent files and closes work itself.
Give Claude Code access to your issue tracker in 5 minutes (MCP)
Wire Claude Code to your issue tracker over MCP so your agent files, searches, and closes issues itself. A 5-minute setup, the OAuth flow, and why the durable record belongs where the agent already writes.