We built Ginger Pickles for our own work first. With a team of two, every ticket we didn’t have to pick up by hand was time back for the work that needed us. It worked well enough that we opened it up to other small teams. It’s named after the real boss of the studio.
It isn’t a replacement for a development team or a pair programmer. It works on its own branch, always finishes with a pull request, and leaves the decision to merge with you.
What it does
- Picks up tickets from Linear and GitHub and works them through to a pull request.
- Refines briefs using your codebase as its reference, so tickets arrive with the technical detail filled in.
- Triages problems, working out whether a gap is a bug or a missing feature.
- Tests its own changes with unit and end-to-end tests, to show they work.
- Reviews code for the small quality issues before a senior developer looks at it, and checks for likely security holes.
- Uses your own model key from Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter or Z.ai, with no markup on tokens. Keys are stored encrypted.
- Works in isolated containers and sandboxes whenever it runs code.
It’s in private beta, and teams are being let in a few at a time.