How Ready Is Your Codebase For Agents?

The major AI players are all promising the same gains when it comes to software development: moving faster, shipping cleaner code, with agents handling the majority of the work. But getting those gains inside an established, complex codebase is a different beast than applying agentic tooling on a greenfield project.

AI As An Amplifier

DORA’s 2025 State of AI-Assisted Software Development report puts it plainly: AI is an amplifier. It magnifies an organization’s existing strengths, and its weaknesses right alongside them. A strong engineering foundation tends to produce stronger outcomes when agentic tooling comes into play. A weak one caps what it can do.

More recently, research from DX, across more than 400 companies found the median organization seeing just a 7.76% throughput gain from AI, far below the 2-3x leaders expected. Top performers hit 44% and up.

Getting to the gains the AI players are promising when it comes to software development takes an agent-ready codebase, one that can keep up with the agents. Through our work with organizations on adopting agentic-first delivery, we’ve seen the same factors continually predict what kind of gains teams can actually get.

It’s why we built the Agent-Ready Assessment to help companies identify possible headwinds and improve their codebases to maximize agent effectiveness.

What The Agent-Ready Assessment Is

The Agent-Ready Assessment works to help you answer how ready your codebase is for AI agents. It reads your repositories, scores their readiness, and hands back an overall score with a ranked punch list of what will get in an agent’s way.

What The Assessment Reviews

The assessment scores six areas that decide how well agents can work within your repositories:

• Test Posture
• Agent Context
• Build Hygiene
• Code Quality Guardrails
• Existing Code Readiness
• CI/CD Checks

How It Works

We run it for you (completed within 15 minutes) and walk your team through what comes back. The tool needs read-only access to the repositories you want looked at. The findings are meant to be actionable and ready to act on, not filed away in a deck.

Optimize For Impact First

If you’re getting ready to put agents to work across your teams or want to do it more effectively, your next best move is to find out what they’re walking into so you can target the biggest gains. 

Learn more about the Agent-Ready Assessment here, or simply reach out to set up an assessment of your codebase.