Behind the Build: How to Run Prod with Background Agents
Resolve started with on-call agents that triage every alert and run deep root-cause analysis, then scaled to full incident response. Background agents are the next step: owning the steady-state work of keeping prod healthy that usually falls through the cracks.
Where background work fits, beyond on-call triage and incident response, into the steady-state toil of running prod
How a background agent actually works: a persistent cloud lifecycle that stands by when idle, a sandboxed filesystem so nothing in-flight is lost, and memory that self-compacts over time
The operational work agents can own: deploy monitoring, P99 / regression investigation, recurring health checks, and daily incident digests
A live demo: a background agent watching a production deployment and stepping in only when it matters
Presented by Justin Smith, Resolve.
