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Building an Issue-Resolving Agent with TrueForge

Building an Issue-Resolving Agent with TrueForge (and everything that went wrong along the way) I spent the last day of the Agent Harness Hackathon building Issue Resolver Agent — a developer operations agent that investigates a GitHub issue, diagnoses the root cause, proposes a fix, and asks for confirmation before opening a PR. It runs on TrueForge , the open-source agent harness this hackathon was built around, with code review handled by Qodo. This is less a polished feature writeup and more an honest account of what it actually took to get a working agent submitted before the deadline — because I think that's more useful to read than a highlight reel. The idea I'd already built a smaller project called GitHub Issue Solver a while back — a Streamlit app that used the GitHub REST API and an LLM to help resolve issues. It worked, but it was a script with a chat window bolted on, not an agent. When I saw the hackathon's suggested pattern — "a developer operations...
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