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Monzo's in-house agent authors over 10% of merged PRs

Agent Chip grew from a Slack emoji-to-prompt trick and now runs over 1,800 tasks a day on an MCP gateway with sandboxed pods.

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What the research found

Monzo's in-house coding agent Agent Chip, which grew from a viral Slack emoji-to-prompt trick in January 2026, now authors over 10% of merged PRs and runs more than 1,800 tasks a day on an MCP gateway and sandboxed agent pods.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Monzo's agent Agent Chip authors over 10% of all merged PRs 98%
  2. Agent Chip runs more than 1,800 tasks per day 99%
  3. Monzo runs more than 3,000 backend services 99%
  4. Agent Chip began with an emoji-to-prompt Slack trick that went viral in January 2026 97%

Evidence

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