How Next.js closed 1,500 GitHub issues in one month with a closability agent
cramforce · x · 2026-09-05
The Next.js team details how an issue-research agent cleared its massive backlog:
- The tracker receives 36 new reports weekly; the backlog peaked at 3,109 open issues in January 2025 and still held 2,244 by August 10, 2026, with stale reports burying current regressions.
- Using @eve, the team built a closability agent that: 1) searches related prior work, 2) attempts to reproduce bugs across versions in a sandbox, 3) returns context for maintainers to review before closing.
- In roughly three weeks they closed 1,462 issues (including some closed outside the process), dropping the backlog to 995 even as 218 new reports arrived.
- An earlier staleness policy (marking issues stale after 18 months of inactivity) alone couldn't separate still-relevant old reports from dead ones.
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