Global Agent FactoryHoward works a Jira board the way a developer would.
Not a code-completion tool sitting inside an editor — an agent that picks its own work, plans it, builds it, and asks for approval at the two points a senior developer would actually want to weigh in.
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Picks the work
Reads the team's Jira board, reviews the open stories, and chooses one.
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Does the homework
Reviews the architectural record and the history behind the feature it's about to touch — not just the ticket text.
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Plans, then waits
Writes a development plan and asks a senior developer to approve it before writing a single line.
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Builds — and cleans up along the way
Checks out the code and implements the feature. If it notices a small refactor worth doing or a bug hiding nearby, it fixes what it finds.
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Asks again before committing
Brings the senior developer a full account of the work — overview and detail — for a second approval, before anything is committed.
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Hands off with context
Checks the new version into the DevOps pipeline with testing notes attached for the test engineers who pick it up next.
Two approval gates, not zero and not twenty — a senior developer signs off on the plan before code is written, and on the diff before it's committed. Everything between those two points is Howard’s to run.