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Fair point. I was not aware of Helix Editor when I named the project. That is my mistake. The project is early enough that renaming is still possible if it becomes a real issue. Would you recommend a rename now or wait to see if the name collision actually causes confusion?


Fair question! I've no idea, but good on you for pondering

If it were me I'd rip the band-aid off, but might just be me being grey-beard. Name Collisions are inevitable these days I guess, and equally one could argue that no project should be able to camp out on a dictionary term :)

Either way, best of luck with your project (which looks super interesting) - I neglected to say that bit :facepalm:


Helix watches your error tracker (Sentry or Rollbar). When a bug hits production, a pipeline of agents kicks off automatically: 1. Crash Handler agent parses the webhook and extracts context 2. QA Agent follows test driven development approach and writes a failing test then opens a GitHub Issue 3. Dev Agent clones the repo, writes a fix for failing test, and creates a PR. 4. Notifier sends the issue + suggestion to Slack for human review with "Approve PR" or "Reject PR" options.

Built with Python, Redis pub/sub for the event bus, and Claude (or Ollama if you prefer local). Self-hostable via Docker Compose.

GitHub: https://github.com/88hours/helix-community

Happy to answer questions about the agent architecture or how the fix suggestions are generated.


It also ship Helix as a Claude skill, so if you are already using Claude Code or Cowork you can get the whole pipeline running in one install with no manual config.


100% this. I have used support multiple times, there were times when calls took more than 12 hours. We used basic and Whenever I needed support I turned on to "Business" - from memory it costed 100 bucks a month.


chatGPT at backend?


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