Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud
Not a pilot. One team shipped 100% of non-developer tasks through their homegrown coding agent in four weeks.
Why it matters
Open-source coding agent infrastructure is shifting from cloud SaaS to self-hosted harnesses. Teams building their own agents report higher shipping velocity and safer PR review workflows than manual coding.
The key facts
12 to know100% of non-developer coding tasks shipped via Broccoli in 4-week trial
60% adoption rate among developers on team for routine work
Integrates with Linear, GitHub, GCP/Blaxel sandboxes
Each task runs in isolated cloud sandbox with independent context
Open-sourced as alternative to proprietary cloud coding agents
Team previously struggled with context-switching and local agent session management
100% of non-developer coding tasks shipped via Broccoli in 4 weeks
60% adoption rate among developer team members
Tasks run in isolated cloud sandboxes on GCP or Blaxel
Integration with Linear, GitHub, and Claude/Codex
Open-source release on GitHub (besimple-oss/broccoli)
Use case: feature requests, refactors, bug fixes, internal tooling
Go to the source
Hacker Newsgithub.com
Publisher excerpt: Hi HN — we built Broccoli, an open-source harness for taking coding tasks from Linear, running them in isolated cloud sandboxes, and opening PRs for a human to review. We’re a small team, and our main company supplies voice data. But we kept running into the same problem with coding agents. We’d…
