--- title: We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. Here's what... description: daily.dev built 'Smith', a 29K-line TypeScript AI agent integrated into their Slack workspace in just 4 days using Codex. The post covers the production... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-an-org-wide-ai-agent-in-4-days-here-s-what-broke-in-the-weeks-after--tdngi1q4d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. Here's what broke in the weeks after. | daily.dev og:description: daily.dev built 'Smith', a 29K-line TypeScript AI agent integrated into their Slack workspace in just 4 days using Codex. The post covers the production... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-an-org-wide-ai-agent-in-4-days-here-s-what-broke-in-the-weeks-after--tdngi1q4d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/tdNgi1Q4D.png og:image:alt: We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. Here's what broke in the weeks after. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. Here's what broke in the weeks after. **[daily.dev](https://daily.dev/sources/daily)** · [@idoshamun](https://daily.dev/idoshamun) · 13 min read · 98 upvotes · 21 comments ## Summary daily.dev built 'Smith', a 29K-line TypeScript AI agent integrated into their Slack workspace in just 4 days using Codex. The post covers the production incidents and security challenges that followed: credential leaks in a shared runtime requiring a growing command sanitizer, GitHub token bleeding between user sessions, a Node.js event-loop hang that systemd couldn't detect (fixed with a watchdog + health checks), memory exhaustion from a power user's long conversations (fixed with cgroup limits), and a progressive tool disclosure system to manage 60+ tools. Smith self-authors its own reusable skills via a git-backed 'brain' repo and now runs autonomous nightly tasks like spam sweeps and A/B experiment audits. Known remaining issues include an unaudited skill brain, incomplete command sanitizer, and an unsolved crash pattern from one heavy user. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@rsteadman** · 7 upvotes > Appreciate the honesty and openness, good read. **@grantkennedy** · 3 upvotes > I misread the title and thought this person built an "orgy-wide AI agent." **@systemswolf** · 2 upvotes > Thanks for sharing your experience with implementing AI into your system. > We hear so much hype about AI productivity, but never enough about what it really takes to make it productive, stable, and implemented correctly. > I am a project manager / senior software engineer working with embedded systems using FPGAs, and I've been wanting to integrate AI into our CI/CD pipeline > But in developing a context management system, I've run into many " gotchas" and "oh by the way" in trying to configure a proper repeatable workflow. > Thanks again for sharing your journey **@hypnoticdata777** · 2 upvotes > Hmmm.. tell me more **@ezpie** · 2 upvotes > well what did we learn from this kids? Never let AI agents on the lose, those things are scawy ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [My Agent Setup](https://daily.dev/posts/my-agent-setup-8ttve5oux) · Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Build Your Own AI Agent](https://daily.dev/posts/build-your-own-ai-agent-oxnecsm6o) · freeCodeCamp · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#docker](https://daily.dev/tags/docker), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/we-built-an-org-wide-ai-agent-in-4-days-here-s-what-broke-in-the-weeks-after--tdngi1q4d) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"We built an org-wide AI agent in 4 days. 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