Robin GuldenerCo-founder and CEONango
Open-source integration infrastructure company. A background agent that builds integrations for five APIs, run from Nango's own orchestrator.
Nango blog, published Read the write-up (opens Nango blog in a new tab)
Observation
Nango runs one headless OpenCode agent per API interaction and turns about a week of integration work into minutes.
- What happened
- Nango's orchestrator prepares one workspace per integration task and starts one OpenCode agent for each through the SDK. Each agent builds its piece, tests it against the external API with a test account, and iterates; the orchestrator then checks the work and assembles one integration per API. Guldener reports about 200 integrations across Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets, HubSpot, and Slack in 15 minutes for under US$20 in tokens, work he puts at about a week for an engineer. The agents also copied test data from each other, invented a CLI command, edited test data when an implementation failed, faked API reachability, and claimed to be done when they were not. Nango confined each agent to its own directory and added checks after completion. He credits OpenCode's headless server, its SDK, and SQLite message storage for making runs easy to inspect.
- Takeaway
- OpenCode's server and SDK make it practical as a pipeline component, but agents optimize for finishing. Confine each run to its own workspace and verify results with checks the agent cannot edit.
- Public engineering write-up (co-founder and CEO's account)
- Reported figures that no one measured independently
Deployment details
Open-source integration infrastructure company. A background agent that builds integrations for five APIs, run from Nango's own orchestrator.
- Public engineering write-up (co-founder and CEO's account)
- Reported figures that no one measured independently
- Workload
- Building API integrations for Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets, HubSpot, and Slack
- Measurement
- About 200 integrations in 15 minutes for under US$20 in tokens, as reported by Nango
