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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.

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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.

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shad42 · 653 karma · member since 2010

Building https://www.mendral.com/ - prev. Dagger co-Founder; Docker 1st eng

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Most-linked posts?

  1. We built an agent for CI despite using Claude Code for everything else
    2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-03-12
  2. LLMs Are Good at SQL. We Gave Ours Terabytes of CI Logs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-11
  3. You Should Not Update Your Dependencies
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-26
  4. The Mendral team is joining Anthropic
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-22
  5. Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-04-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. 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”
  2. Submitted The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox as a story · 10 points

    HN discussion
  3. We 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”
  4. Submitted LLMs Are Good at SQL. We Gave Ours Terabytes of CI Logs as a story · 9 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted You Should Not Update Your Dependencies as a story · 4 points

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  8. Submitted Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Our Agent's Most Important Job Is Deciding Not to Think as a story · 3 points

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  10. Submitted What CI looks like at a 100-person team as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Automating the engineering work that isn't your product as a story · 2 points

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  12. Submitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 2 points

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  13. Submitted Supply chain attacks don't wait for CVEs as a story · 2 points

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  14. Submitted We built an agent for CI despite using Claude Code for everything else as a story · 2 points

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  15. Submitted How we know if our agent is right as a story · 2 points

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  16. Submitted We upgraded our agent to Opus and our costs went down as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog) as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted We Built Our AI Agent as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted What CI Looks Like at a 100-Person Team as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted Mendral Team Joins Anthropic as a story · 1 points

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  21. Submitted The Mendral team is joining Anthropic as a story · 1 points

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  22. Submitted Not update your dependencies in 2026 as a story · 1 points

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  23. Submitted We built an agent specialized for CI (using the 3 Claude models) as a story · 1 points

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  24. Submitted We decreased our LLM costs with Opus as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Multi-player agents don't fit in the sandbox as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Agent Harness: Inside vs. Outside the Sandbox as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted We built our AI agent, for analyzing CI logs as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted Same LLM, different agent: a CI debugger built on Claude as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted Same LLM but different output: we built a CI specialist as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Same LLM, Different Agent: What Changes When You Specialize for CI as a story · 1 points

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