--- title: "PA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation" url: https://daily.dev/posts/pa-a-persistent-agent-for-developer-workflow-automation-as3a0lzps source_url: https://www.metabase.com/blog/persistent-agent type: article source: "Metabase" published: 2026-06-17T14:27:16.349Z updated: 2026-06-18T06:19:47.930Z tags: ["automation", "ai-agents", "cli", "claude-code"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 1 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # PA: a persistent agent for developer workflow automation **[Metabase](https://daily.dev/sources/metabase)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PA (Persistent Agent) is an open-source CLI tool built by Metabase that automates repetitive developer workflow tasks like morning standups, ticket triage, and PR creation. Unlike one-shot agents, it maintains state on disk across sessions, allowing it to resume tasks, wait for feedback, and operate autonomously in the background. The author reports reclaiming roughly 15% of their workday by delegating trivial and boring tasks to PA. It runs on top of Claude Code, uses a markdown-based file structure for memory and task management, and integrates with GitHub, Slack, Linear, Notion, and Figma. Setup involves forking the repo and running an install script. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#automation](https://daily.dev/tags/automation), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#cli](https://daily.dev/tags/cli), [#claude-code](https://daily.dev/tags/claude-code) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pa-a-persistent-agent-for-developer-workflow-automation-as3a0lzps)