Dropbox builds Nova, an internal cloud platform for running coding agents across the software development lifecycle
Engineering work at Dropbox included many repetitive, disruptive tasks — debugging CI failures, updating dependencies, fixing flaky tests, and managing migrations — that pulled engineers' focus away from deeper product and infrastructure work. Off-the-shelf coding agent tools did not fit Dropbox's monorepo, Bazel-based infrastructure, or internal validation paths.
Nova is now used across flaky test remediation, dependency migrations, and production crash response at Dropbox, replacing the prior Goose-based migrator with interactive sessions, shared guardrails, and reusable workflow tooling across a range of engineering workflows.
A prior Goose-based AI migrator had no interactivity for reviewing or continuing agent output, leaving teams with no practical way to recover from failures. It also lacked shared guardrails, reusable workflow tooling, and a consistent operating model.
https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/introducing-nova-our-internal-platform-for-coding-agents