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  • Diagram showing the architecture of Ranger's background agent infrastructure from Slack to deployed preview environments
    February 20, 2026  · Daniel Griffin

    Why You're Overthinking Background Agents

    If you can run your system locally on your machine, you can have background agents that anyone at your company can use to ship features from Slack. That's really the bar.

  • Illustration of Ranger's QA agent verifying a background coding agent's work in a browser
    February 19, 2026  · Adwith Mukherjee, Chris Sheafe, Josh Ip, Mikayla Thompson

    Why We Built a QA Agent for Our Background Agent

    Our background agent writes the code like any other coding agent, but can now use Ranger to close the loop by testing itself and showcasing its work back to us for review.

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