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Coding agents are spreading through companies the way cloud infrastructure once did: one personal account at a time, each set up however its owner saw fit. In practice, that means one developer's agent can read every credential on their laptop, while another runs with its permission prompts switched off because they slowed the work down. The last time this happened, the answer was internal developer platforms: paved roads of shared tooling and guardrails that made the sanctioned way also the fastest way. Coding agents now need their own paved road. That paved road is a background-agent platform: a shared service where agents take tasks, work asynchronously in isolated environments, and return their changes as pull requests. I will introduce this model through OpenInspect, an open-source implementation, tracing what happens from a request in Slack to the resulting pull request. You will see what the platform adds along the way, and how it lowers the technical barrier for product owners, customer experience teams, and others to turn their domain knowledge into proposed changes to code, documentation, and configuration.