Best alternatives to Broccoli in 2026

Engineering teams manage backlogs of small, well-defined tickets — a bug fix here, a minor feature there — that someone eventually has to actually implement. Broccoli works like assigning that ticket to a very fast, very literal junior developer who never needs a stand-up: you hand it a Linear issue, it goes and reads the code, makes the change, runs the tests, and comes back with a pull request instead of a status update, ready for a human to inspect before it merges. Technically, Broccoli gives each assigned task its own isolated cloud sandbox, checks out the target repo, and uses Claude or OpenAI Codex to plan and implement the change, run tests and review loops, and open a PR — all deployed on your own Google Cloud project (optionally with Blaxel for sandboxing) rather than a third-party's infrastructure, backed by PostgreSQL for job state and driven by GitHub/Linear webhooks. It's MIT licensed and open source; you pay only your own GCP compute costs, with a documented ~30-minute setup via one bootstrap script, one config file, and two webhooks.