# Replicas Blog

Announcements, customer stories, and best practices from the Replicas team.

## [We killed a feature 2 days after launching it](https://replicas.dev/blog/we-killed-a-feature-2-days-after-launching-it)

Mothership was a proactive Slack agent and a headline feature of our v2 launch. Why we killed it two days later, what we kept for Scout, and how it came back as persistent, long-running Motherships.

- Published: 2026-11-15
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Engineering

## [Introducing the new Replicas mobile app](https://replicas.dev/blog/new-replicas-mobile-app)

We rebuilt the Replicas app for iPhone and iPad. With the new app, you can answer agents from notifications, review and merge pull requests, and manage Motherships from your phone.

- Published: 2026-11-12
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Our codebase fixes itself now](https://replicas.dev/blog/our-codebase-fixes-itself)

A customer asked for a feature in Slack and a tested PR showed up 33 minutes later. What happened in between, and the Replicas features that made it work: silent triage, Linear routing to Motherships, self-testing ships and closing the loop.

- Published: 2026-11-10
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Best practices

## [How to migrate from Conductor Cloud to Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/migrate-from-conductor-cloud)

Conductor Cloud shuts down on November 20, 2026. What to save before it goes read-only, how its Cloud Computer, setup scripts, secrets and routines map to Replicas, and what works differently.

- Published: 2026-11-04
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [How we rebuilt long-term memory](https://replicas.dev/blog/long-term-memory-v2)

Long-term memory V2: session history that beat LLM summaries in a blind benchmark at a fraction of the context, learnings that cost about 20 tokens each, and dreaming that learns your team’s preferences overnight.

- Published: 2026-10-29
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Engineering

## [What a software factory is and how we run ours](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-we-run-our-software-factory)

My take on what a software factory is, why it runs on cloud agents, and how we run ours at Replicas: automations that open PRs on their own, proof instead of diff reviews, and agents in CI.

- Published: 2026-10-22
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Best practices

## [Introducing Replicas Review](https://replicas.dev/blog/replicas-review)

Review GitHub and GitLab pull requests in Replicas with a guided tour of every change, then ask an agent to fix what you find without leaving the diff.

- Published: 2026-10-21
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Introducing GPU sandboxes for agents](https://replicas.dev/blog/gpu-sandboxes)

Replicas agents can now spin up their own cloud GPUs to run training, inference, rendering, and CUDA work, with zero setup on your end.

- Published: 2026-10-19
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Announcing Replicas' $4M seed round](https://replicas.dev/blog/seed)

We raised a $4M seed round from Y Combinator, Flex Capital, Founders' Co-op, Paul Graham, and founders of Resend, Graphite, and Privy to build the cloud platform where coding agents do real engineering work.

- Published: 2026-10-13
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Agents can now schedule their own follow-ups](https://replicas.dev/blog/agent-follow-ups-and-reminders)

Replicas agents can schedule their own follow-ups: one-time reminders and recurring check-ins that land in the same chat and delete themselves when done.

- Published: 2026-10-12
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [How Vela made engineering reviews 3× faster with cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/customers/vela)

Vela reviews and tests every pull request with cloud agents before engineers read the diff, making engineering reviews 3× faster and speeding up deployments.

- Published: 2026-09-28
- Author: Replicas Team
- Category: Customer stories

## [Introducing Replicas for iOS](https://replicas.dev/blog/replicas-for-ios)

Replicas for iOS is now available on the App Store. Start, steer, and review cloud coding agents from your iPhone while work continues in the cloud.

- Published: 2026-09-24
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [How to use Mercury with Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-to-use-mercury-with-replicas)

Use cloud agents with Mercury in Replicas to review cash, analyze spend, reconcile invoices, assemble statements, and automate finance reports.

- Published: 2026-09-20
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [How we built the fastest, smoothest computer-use stream for cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/blog/faster-smoother-computer-use)

The C, Go, and Rust capture experiments behind the highest frame rate and smoothest frame delivery among the cloud agents we tested.

- Published: 2026-09-17
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Engineering

## [How Utility Profit ships code across all departments with cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/customers/utility-profit)

Teams across every department at Utility Profit use Replicas to turn plain-language tickets into review-ready pull requests.

- Published: 2026-09-17
- Author: Replicas Team
- Category: Customer stories

## [How to use ClickHouse with Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-to-use-clickhouse-with-replicas)

Use cloud agents with ClickHouse in Replicas to analyze data, investigate slow queries, prepare tested code changes, and automate recurring reports.

- Published: 2026-09-11
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [Why cloud coding agents should be harness agnostic](https://replicas.dev/blog/why-cloud-coding-agents-should-be-harness-agnostic)

Why we’re focused on the infrastructure to run any coding agent, including the harnesses companies build themselves.

- Published: 2026-09-10
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Company

## [How we gave agents long-term memory](https://replicas.dev/blog/long-term-memory)

Replicas now learns personal and team-wide preferences in the background as engineers work, then carries them into every workspace and harness.

- Published: 2026-09-10
- Author: Gateek Chandak
- Category: Engineering

## [How to use Vanta with Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-to-use-vanta-with-replicas)

Use cloud agents with Vanta in Replicas to automate SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance work: draft policies, collect evidence, and address findings.

- Published: 2026-09-09
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [Introducing role-based access control](https://replicas.dev/blog/role-based-access-control)

Create roles and set access for environments, automations, and analytics in Replicas.

- Published: 2026-09-08
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Introducing code intelligence in every workspace](https://replicas.dev/blog/code-intelligence-in-every-workspace)

Hover symbols, jump to definitions, and find references without leaving a Replicas workspace.

- Published: 2026-09-07
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [Introducing fallbacks + forks](https://replicas.dev/blog/fallbacks-and-forks)

Replicas can now switch credentials, inference providers, or coding agents when a task would otherwise stop.

- Published: 2026-09-04
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Announcements

## [How to use Context.dev with Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-to-use-context-dev-with-replicas)

Give a Replicas cloud coding agent current web context with Context.dev, then turn it into a verified code change or sourced report.

- Published: 2026-08-26
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Best practices

## [Introducing harness-agnostic analytics for engineering teams](https://replicas.dev/blog/harness-agnostic-analytics)

As models and harnesses keep changing, teams need more than usage totals to understand where their AI resources are going.

- Published: 2026-08-23
- Author: Gateek Chandak
- Category: Announcements

## [How to use PostHog with Replicas](https://replicas.dev/blog/how-to-use-posthog-with-replicas)

Connect PostHog to Replicas, write a focused investigation task, and review the pull request or technical report the agent returns.

- Published: 2026-08-13
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Best practices

## [How Knowunity doubled engineering velocity with cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/customers/knowunity)

Knowunity uses Replicas across GitHub and GitLab, where cloud agents now produce half of its pull requests.

- Published: 2026-08-13
- Author: Replicas Team
- Category: Customer stories

## [Why we refreshed the Replicas brand](https://replicas.dev/blog/refreshing-the-replicas-brand)

Why Replicas is evolving its brand as cloud agents become a platform for entire engineering teams.

- Published: 2026-08-12
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Company

## [How Moda moved its entire engineering team from local IDEs to cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/customers/moda)

Moda moved its entire engineering team from local IDEs to Replicas, where scheduled and event-driven cloud agents run recurring engineering work without human intervention.

- Published: 2026-08-07
- Author: Replicas Team
- Category: Customer stories

## [Why we switched from SQL to an ORM (kinda)](https://replicas.dev/blog/why-we-switched-from-sql-to-an-orm)

I still dislike ORMs. But moving our monolith to Kysely gave us typed queries without taking SQL away.

- Published: 2026-08-03
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Featured

## [How Parrot reviews every pull request with a team of cloud agents](https://replicas.dev/customers/parrot)

Parrot uses Replicas to run coding agents in the cloud, review pull requests, and automate engineering work across its TypeScript monorepo.

- Published: 2026-08-03
- Author: Replicas Team
- Category: Customer stories

## [Why every agent needs a computer](https://replicas.dev/blog/everything-needs-a-computer)

How Replicas makes parallel engineering work possible, from implementation and browser verification to PR review, and the infrastructure behind it.

- Published: 2026-07-22
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Featured

## [How we made the agent's computer feel local](https://replicas.dev/blog/making-the-agents-computer-feel-local)

The technical path from a usable remote desktop to faster live control, more accurate agent browser use, and better recording UX.

- Published: 2026-07-04
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Featured

## [We gave Replicas our entire backlog](https://replicas.dev/blog/we-gave-replicas-our-entire-backlog)

What happened when we ran our real product backlog through Replicas and graded every pull request.

- Published: 2026-05-16
- Author: Saai Arora
- Category: Featured

## [Introducing Replicas V1, the end-to-end background coding agent](https://replicas.dev/blog/replicas-v1)

A deep dive into Replicas V1, Environments, and next steps.

- Published: 2026-03-18
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements

## [What Replicas is doing in 2026](https://replicas.dev/blog/2026-mission)

Our vision for SWE agents and Replicas's role in the coming year.

- Published: 2026-01-05
- Author: Connor Loi
- Category: Announcements