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Mendral
Company blog · mendral.com/blog · on HN as shad42aiprogramming
Mendral is the company blog at mendral.com, writing about ai and programming. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “We built an agent for CI despite using Claude Code for everything else”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Mendral is the AI DevOps Engineer — three always-on agents for security, reliability, and performance, plus custom automations for any DevOps work specific to your stack. Automates supply-chain defense, CI fixes, and build performance.
Most-linked posts?
- We built an agent for CI despite using Claude Code for everything else2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
- LLMs Are Good at SQL. We Gave Ours Terabytes of CI Logs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
- You Should Not Update Your Dependencies2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
- The Mendral team is joining Anthropic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-22
- Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-11
What Hacker News says?
Mendral is replacing a human Platform Engineer. It debugs the CI logs, look at the commit associated, look at the implementation of the tests, etc... It then proposes fixes and takes care of opening a PR. We wrote about how this works for PostHog: https://www.mendral.com/blog/ci-at-scale
Comment linking /blog/ci-at-scale
on “We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM”Submitted The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox as a story · 10 points
HN discussionWe started writing very recently: https://www.mendral.com/blog - there is a another post we made yesterday about the overall architecture. And we have a long list of things we're planning to write about in more details. Taking good note of your comment :)
Comment linking /blog
on “We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM”Submitted LLMs Are Good at SQL. We Gave Ours Terabytes of CI Logs as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted You Should Not Update Your Dependencies as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Our Agent's Most Important Job Is Deciding Not to Think as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What CI looks like at a 100-person team as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating the engineering work that isn't your product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Supply chain attacks don't wait for CVEs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We built an agent for CI despite using Claude Code for everything else as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We upgraded our agent to Opus and our costs went down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Built Our AI Agent as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What CI Looks Like at a 100-Person Team as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mendral Team Joins Anthropic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mendral team is joining Anthropic as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not update your dependencies in 2026 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We built an agent specialized for CI (using the 3 Claude models) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We decreased our LLM costs with Opus as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Multi-player agents don't fit in the sandbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted We built our AI agent, for analyzing CI logs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same LLM, different agent: a CI debugger built on Claude as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same LLM but different output: we built a CI specialist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Same LLM, Different Agent: What Changes When You Specialize for CI as a story · 1 points
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