Xirp

What Xirp is

Xirp is Spotify’s agentic development environment. It gives AI coding agents institutional context about your systems so their suggestions are operationally correct, not just technically correct. Instead of guessing at how a service works, agents start each session grounded in service ownership, dependencies, architectural decisions, and live documentation.

Key features

• Agent memory layer - assistants see not just the file being edited but the system it belongs to: owners, dependents, and rationale.
• Shared workspace - a Spotify Portal (Backstage) plugin that acts as a context layer for sessions, work items, and docs across engineers and agents.
• Living documentation - docs are built automatically from coding sessions and fed back into future sessions.
• Model-agnostic - works with Claude, Gemini, Codex, and other coding agents, in local or remote sessions.
• Context that persists - sessions keep their context instead of losing it between runs.

Install

macOS only (Apple silicon or Intel):

curl -fsSL https://xirp.spotify.com/install.sh | sh

Or download the native app from the join-beta page. Non-Mac users join the waitlist.

Supported agents

Claude, Gemini, Codex, and other coding agents - Xirp does not lock you into one model provider.

Use case

Xirp is for engineering teams whose AI sessions drift because agents lack organizational context. It is strongest where service ownership and architecture live in Spotify Portal (Backstage) and where new engineers need to ramp on systems quickly.

Availability

Preview beta. Sign up at xirp.spotify.com; a Portal instance is included for beta participants.

Honest caveat

Xirp is a context layer, not a coding agent itself. It improves the decisions of the agents you already use, so its value depends on your Portal (Backstage) setup being well-maintained and on your team adopting it across sessions.