Engineering

A senior engineer who loses the first hour of every incident to re-discovering what the system already knew.

[ 01 ]The problem

Codebases outgrow any one person's head. The answer to "why does this service retry forever" exists — in a PR description from last year, a runbook nobody updated, and a postmortem in a doc tool — but assembling it takes longer than the fix. Generic assistants see the open file; they don't see the system.

[ 02 ]How Mynd handles it

Questions become investigations

Y0 plans an investigation, not a guess: which repos, which runbooks, which incident history are relevant to this question, in what order.

The context graph spans the system

Code, PRs, runbooks, and postmortems are connected as one graph. The retry question pulls the PR that introduced the loop, the config that bounds it, and the postmortem where it last bit someone.

Execution stays inside guardrails

Suggested fixes arrive as diffs against a branch, with the trace of what was read to produce them. Nothing merges itself; everything is reviewable.

[ 03 ][ example run ]

plan     ✦ investigate: payment-svc retry storm
context  ✓ payment-svc repo — retry config located
context  ✓ PR #2114 — backoff removed, jun 2025
context  ✓ postmortem im-83 — same signature
execute  → draft fix: restore capped backoff
execute  → attach trace + postmortem link to PR
result   ✓ root cause in 6 min · diff ready for review

[ 04 ]median time to root cause, was 50

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