Collaborative Cloud Agents in Slack Threads
summary
Harvey moves coding agents off laptops into a cloud platform called Specter that stores session state as JSONL, wires Codex/cloud code and MCPs into Slack threads, and treats a GitHub repo as a legal matter — a sharable container of logs, memory, and artifacts. Teams see a surprising scale: Series G valuation $11B, 100,000 lawyers, 80-turn limits causing failures. Specter runs scheduled automations for on‑call handoffs, groups PRs into triage dashboards, and uses Datadog, GitHub Actions, Linear and Notion to make Slack thread as workspace and Specter durable sessions.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Moving coding agents from laptops to the cloud
- 3:51The moment Spectre became necessary
- 12:11A GitHub repo as a legal matter
- 15:46A Slack thread as the agent workspace
- 24:11Scheduled agents and repeat work
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