How Go Micro Builds Itself

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Go Micro is an agent harness. The most honest test of that claim is to use agents to build it — so increasingly, we do. A scheduled loop of two AI agents now opens issues, writes increments, and merges its own pull requests against this repo, on a cadence, with a human setting direction rather than typing the code.

This isn’t a stunt. If a harness is good enough to operate a loop that builds itself, that’s evidence it’s good enough to operate the loop that builds your software. So we pointed the thesis at itself and wired up the loop. This post is how it actually works — including the parts that didn’t, because the failure modes are the interesting part.

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How Go Micro Builds Itself