Set Up Your Autonomous Engineer

Stop being your AI’s on-call engineer. Your autonomous engineer monitors your AI 24/7, detects issues, creates fixes, and ships them as pull requests—automatically.

The Problem: You’re Your AI’s On-Call Engineer

2am failures wake you up. Your AI starts giving bad responses, customers complain, and you’re debugging blind. Did the model change? Is a tool broken? Is there a logic error? Without visibility, you’re playing whack-a-mole with quality issues.

Manual fixes don’t scale. You spot-check responses, find problems, and wonder about the thousands of interactions you didn’t see. By the time you notice issues, they’ve already impacted users.

The Solution: Your Autonomous Engineer

🔍 Monitors your AI interactions and detects quality issues
🛠️ Generates fixes and tests them against real data
📝 Creates pull requests with proven improvements

Time required: Under 5 minutes
Prerequisites: Handit.ai Account , Node.js, and admin access to your GitHub repository

Set up your autonomous engineer

Your autonomous engineer setup happens in one seamless flow through the Handit CLI. Here’s what will happen:

Step 1: Install the Handit CLI

npm install -g @handit.ai/cli

Step 2: Start the Setup Process

Navigate to your AI project directory and run:

handit-cli setup

The CLI will guide you through connecting your autonomous engineer to your AI system:

🔧 Initial Connection

• Connect your Handit.ai account
• Install the Handit SDK in your project
• Configure your API key for monitoring

📱 Test Your Connection

• The CLI will ask you to run your app to verify everything works
• Your autonomous engineer immediately starts monitoring your AI
• You’ll see real-time data flowing in your dashboard

Example of code the CLI generates for you:

The CLI adds tracing only to your main agent entry points - the functions that start agent execution:

Python:

# Auto-generated by handit-cli setup
from handit_ai import tracing, configure
import os
 
configure(HANDIT_API_KEY=os.getenv("HANDIT_API_KEY"))
 
# Tracing added to your main agent function (entry point)
@tracing(agent="customer-service-agent")
async def process_customer_request(user_message: str):
    # Your existing agent logic (unchanged)
    intent = await classify_intent(user_message)      # Not traced individually
    context = await search_knowledge(intent)          # Not traced individually  
    response = await generate_response(context)       # Not traced individually
    return response

JavaScript:

// Auto-generated by handit-cli setup
import { configure, startTracing, endTracing } from '@handit.ai/handit-ai';
 
configure({
  HANDIT_API_KEY: process.env.HANDIT_API_KEY
});
 
// Tracing added to your main agent function (entry point)
export const processCustomerRequest = async (userMessage) => {
  startTracing({ agent: "customer-service-agent" });
  try {
    // Your existing agent logic (unchanged)
    const intent = await classifyIntent(userMessage);     // Not traced individually
    const context = await searchKnowledge(intent);       // Not traced individually
    const response = await generateResponse(context);     // Not traced individually
    return response;
    } finally {
    endTracing();
  }
};

Key point: The CLI only adds tracing to your main agent functions, not to every individual function. Everything inside the traced function gets captured automatically.

Your Autonomous Engineer is Now Active

✅ Check your dashboard: Go to dashboard.handit.ai  to see your AI’s baseline metrics.

🛠️ Automatic fixes: As soon as Handit detects your first issue, it will automatically create a pull request with the fix.

How it works:

• Detects quality issues in your AI responses
• Analyzes the root cause automatically
• Generates a fix and tests it against real data
• Creates a pull request with the proven improvement

🔍 Continuous monitoring: Your AI is monitored 24/7 - when issues are detected, fixes are shipped automatically.

Troubleshooting

❌ CLI command not found?
Install Node.js first: node --version (should show v16+)

❌ “Authentication failed” during setup?
Check your Handit.ai account credentials at dashboard.handit.ai 

❌ No traces appearing in dashboard?
Run handit-cli setup again and verify your API key: echo $HANDIT_API_KEY

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