Building software involves repetitive work at nearly every stage—planning, implementation, testing, code review, and opening pull requests. AI coding assistants have started to help with pieces of this, but most stop at suggesting code inside your editor. A more ambitious approach is agentic automation, where multiple specialized AI agents coordinate to carry a feature from a written specification all the way to a finished pull request. This shifts the developer's role from writing every line to defining intent and reviewing results.

Reygent is an open-source command-line tool that does exactly this. It orchestrates multiple agents—each focused on a task like planning, implementation, testing, security review, or PR creation—and reads specs from markdown, Jira, or Linear to drive the entire workflow. It supports multiple AI providers, includes quality gates to keep generated code trustworthy, and ships with a local-first telemetry engine called Chesstrace that tracks pipeline runs without sending data anywhere.

In this presentation, Andrew Evans will cover the fundamentals of multi-agent orchestration and walk through how Reygent automates the development lifecycle. Andrew will also share the practical lessons he learned building the tool, including coordinating agent handoffs, handling failures and resuming interrupted runs, and designing telemetry to understand what the agents are actually doing.

To learn more about Reygent ahead of time, check out the offical docs at https://andrewevans0102.github.io/reygent/ and Andrew's blog post at https://andrewevans.dev/blog/2026-05-15-reygent-ai-agents-from-spec-to-shipped-pr/.

Agenda:
05:30 - 05:55 Welcome & Networking
05:55 - 06:00 Announcements
06:00 - 07:00 Main presentation
07:00 - 07:15 Q&A
07:15 - 07:30 Wrap-up

Speaker: Andrew Evans
Andrew Evans is a Principal Software Engineer and Platform Lead at Red Hat. Andrew has 15+ years of experience across web and API development, CI/CD automation, DevOps, and cloud. Over his career he’s led engineering teams, mentored developers, and also held talks and workshops. Andrew enjoys exploring emerging tech and sharing what he learns. He writes about his work at andrewevans.dev. When not working, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and children as well as woodworking and anything outdoors.

Sponsor: Ippon Technologies

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