Automating Massive Refactors with Parallel Agents

​Shrink refactors significantly by orchestrating a fleet of coding agents—with a human-in-the-loop workflow that actually ships!

​Today’s coding agents crush small, atomic tasks—but large refactors still stall. This webinar shows how to orchestrate a fleet of agents to handle codebase-wide changes in parallel, while you stay in control. Robert Brennan and Calvin Smith walk through a proven workflow: decompose work into agent-sized chunks, branch and PR safely, auto-fix and auto-verify changes, and merge confidently. They’ll demo strategies for upgrading language versions, framework migrations, and modularizing monoliths. Plus you'll get a preview on how the Refactor SDK (private beta) encodes fixers, verifiers, and progress tracking so you can scale from 3 to 30 agents without chaos. Leave with a playbook you can run this week.

​What you’ll learn

• ​A repeatable git branching strategy for parallel agents (safe PRs to a rolling refactor branch)

• ​Task decomposition patterns that keep agents fast and independent

• ​Using fixers & verifiers to make changes measurable and mergeable

• ​Progress tracking for visibility across dozens of concurrent tasks

• ​Human-in-the-loop guardrails that turn “almost automated” into shippable

​Speakers

​Robert Brennan — Co-founder and CEO at OpenHands

​Calvin Smith — Senior Researcher at OpenHands

​Clarke Shipley — GTM Lead at OpenHands