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Summary

Rebuilds Approaches § Stripe Minions from the three sources supplied:

1. Stripe Part 1 — one-shot, end-to-end coding agents (Alistair Gray, Leverage team, Feb 2026) — full article body extracted and integrated
2. MindStudio — blueprint architecture: deterministic + agentic nodes (Mar 2026)
3. How I AI — "How AI agents write 1,300 PRs weekly with 0 human coding" (video, linked as source)

New sections in the Minions write-up

• Why Stripe built it in-house — the build-vs-buy checklist from the primary source: hundreds of millions of LOC, Ruby-without-Rails + Sorbet (rare in training data), homegrown libraries, $1T+/yr payment volume under regulatory constraints, deep existing devprod tooling
• The feedback ladder ("shift feedback left") — <5s heuristic local lint on every push → selective CI from 3M+ tests with auto-applied autofixes → the max-2-CI-rounds rationale ("often one, at most two — and only after we've fixed everything we can locally")
• Product surface — Slack thread invocation (full-thread + linked context), internal-app buttons (docs, feature-flag, ticketing platforms), flaky-test tickets that ship with a fix-it-with-a-minion button, follow-up instructions on completed runs
• Blueprint node taxonomy (MindStudio) — deterministic nodes gather/verify, agentic nodes reason/generate; bounded retry loops; stateless agentic nodes + per-instance validation as the safe-parallelization mechanism behind the 1,300/week figure

Correction

Toolshed hosts 400+ MCP tools per the primary source — the site previously said ~500 in five places (approaches.md ×3, patterns.md ×2). All fixed. Also noted: minions get curated subsets of Toolshed, not the full catalog.

Attribution fix

Who's Who previously said the Minions team was "kept anonymous" — Part 1 is credited to Alistair Gray of Stripe's Leverage team. Entry updated.

Files

• content/approaches.md — Minions section rebuilt; tool-count fixes
• content/patterns.md — tool-count fixes
• content/who-is-who.md — attribution
• content/changelog.md — entry under 2026-07-09
• index.html — rebuilt

Test plan

• Approaches § Stripe Minions renders with the new Sources line, why-in-house, feedback-ladder, and product-surface sections
• No remaining "~500 tools" references (grep -rn "500 tools" content/ is clean)
• Cross-links (schools, benchmarks, Part 2) resolve

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