Building Oz: how, why, and what

A roundtable discussion with the team who built Oz. Hear how the Warp team uses Oz internally, the problem they were trying to solve, and why it’s built the way it is. Moderated by Warp’s DevRel Lead Ben, who’s joined by Ian (Oz team lead), Lili (Oz team member), and Aloke (Founding Engineer). Try Oz today: https://www.warp.dev/oz Timestamps 00:00 - Introductions: Ben Holmes, Aloke, Ian, and Lili 00:30 - What is Oz? 03:42 - Warpy Slack bot: our initial MVP 09:14 - Do we need a backlog? 13:00 - Planning mode 15:10 - GitHub review workflows 17:15 - Context engineering and planning mode 23:35 - Skills as a core concept 26:48 - Scheduled agent jobs with feature flag bot 31:43 - How cloud environments work 38:04 - Fine-grained environment security 41:16 - Testing agentic systems 42:29 - Warp terminal integration 43:25 - How API design drives code quality 45:03 - Best practices for agent prompts 49:17 - Parallelizing agents in the background 52:10 - Cloud mode in Warp 54:22 - Computer use and UI automation 58:04 - Artifacts and session transcripts 1:02:35 - What’s next?