Startup
Moderne
The deterministic engine for agents to make estate-wide code changes.
Moderne offers agent tools, including Trigrep and Prethink, and a CLI that can direct GitHub Copilot to run changes, such as a Java 25 upgrade, across a set of repositories. Each agent-driven 'factory' runs a recipe and observes its effect across every repository in the set. Build or test failures in one repository feed back to refine the recipe, so it can make the change safely in repositories with weaker test coverage.
In research (2)
- Software Engineering LLMs: Why We Need Them and How Software Engineering Helps Build ThemVerdict: Useful
Oct 24, 2026 · Commercial deterministic large-scale refactoring, an alternative to teaching the model to refactor.
- Automating Feature Flag Cleanup at Scale with Multi-Agent LLM Systems: An Industrial Experience at DoorDashVerdict: Useful
Oct 22, 2026 · OpenRewrite/Moderne-style rule-based large-scale refactoring is the class of tool (like Piranha) the paper argues cannot handle DoorDash's flag pattern.
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Sources
Verified Oct 29, 2026