Show HN: Helix – open-source self-healing back end for production crashes • Hacker News Board

Post by NomiJ » Sat, Apr 11, 2026, 1:56 PM UTC

Helix watches your error tracker (Sentry or Rollbar). When a bug hits production, a pipeline of agents kicks off automatically:

  1. Crash Handler 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.

Show HN: Helix – open-source self-healing back end for production crashes
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