---
title: "From Signal to PR: Anatomy of a Self-Improving Agent"
category: "talks"
date: "2026-06-30"
time: "11:10am-11:30am"
track: "Evals"
room: "Track 5"
speakers: ["Jason Lopatecki"]
sourceLabels: ["Official conference schedule", "Public YouTube metadata"]
scheduleTrack: "Evals"
scheduleRoom: "Track 5"
scheduleLabels: ["Evals", "Track 5", "sponsor", "confirmed"]
---
# From Signal to PR: Anatomy of a Self-Improving Agent

## Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: Evals · Track 5
- Speaker(s): Jason Lopatecki
- Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed

- Track: Evals
- Room: Track 5
- Session type: sponsor
- Status: confirmed

## Session Description
What if your observability platform didn't just tell you something was wrong, but told you why, and opened a PR with the fix? We'll walk through how we built Autopilot at Arize: an autonomous investigation agent that triggers on monitor alerts or schedules, pulls traces into a working filesystem, runs root-cause analysis, and produces actionable assets: a PR with prompt or code changes ready for review. We'll cover the architecture decisions (cloud agents vs. sandboxed containers, AI harness + skills), why traces-on-a-filesystem is the key unlock for agent-driven debugging, and how we dogfooded the system on our own agent, Alyx, before shipping it to customers. You'll leave with a concrete picture of what "observability that fixes itself" looks like in practice, and where and why the human stays in the loop.

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## People
- [[jason-lopatecki]]

## Notes
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## Synthesis
### Synthesized Breakdown
# From Signal to PR: Anatomy of a Self-Improving Agent ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-06-30 · 11:10am-11:30am - Track/room: Evals · Track 5 - Speaker(s): Jason Lopatecki - Session type/status: sponsor · confirmed - Track: Evals - Room: Track 5 - Session type: sponsor - Status: confirmed ## Session Description What if your observability platform didn't just tell you something was wrong, but told you why, and opened a PR with the fix? We'll walk through how we built Autopilot at Arize: an autonomous investigation agent that triggers on monitor alerts or schedules, pulls traces into a working filesystem, runs root-cause analysis, and produces actionable assets: a PR with prompt or code changes ready for review. We'll cover the architecture decisions (cloud agents vs. sandboxed containers, AI harness + skills), why traces-on-a-filesystem is the key unlock for agent-driven debugging, and how we dogfooded the system on our own agent, Alyx, before shipping it to customers.

### Speaker And Company Context
- [[jason-lopatecki|Jason Lopatecki]] — CEO at [[arize|Arize]].

### Topics Covered
- [[ai-sandboxes]]
- [[coding-agents]]

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