This describes adopting a "software factory" pattern to let an orchestrated harness drive progress on company projects instead of relying on individual engineers. After a rapid year of tooling changes - moving everyone to Claude Code, restructuring local workspaces, migrating from Jira to Linear, and building an "Agent Fleet" harness - the factory is implemented as an agent skill (/linear-project-loop) that audits a Linear project against explicit goal artifacts: an RFC in Notion, Datadog dashboards or Snowflake queries that measure the goals, and the project's issue state. If artifacts are missing it iterates to create them, then reviews metrics and issues, adds or updates tasks, and performs non-blocked work such as writing or updating pull requests, pinging reviewers, or asking clarifying questions. It repeats the loop, restarting with goals if the project description is stale.
The implementation is run locally today but is intended to move into the central orchestrated harness. The main gains are forcing explicit, shareable project goals (preventing single-person state hoarding) and providing automated post-release checks for adoption or errors. The pattern depends on several infrastructural prerequisites - Datadog/Snowflake access, Linear as the single source of truth, and an autonomous harness - so its benefits compound only when those migrations are complete.
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