Open Agentic Development Model
Warp is advancing its Open Agentic Development model, utilizing GPT-5.5 to coordinate persistent agents across local, cloud, and open-source workflows. This year, the company open-sourced its terminal client, with OpenAI as the founding sponsor of the repository, emphasizing the central role of agents in its engineering operations.
Functionality of Open Agentic Development
Under Warp’s model, humans define objectives and supervise outcomes, while agents are responsible for planning tasks, writing code, running tests, and opening pull requests. To facilitate this, Warp developed Oz, a cloud orchestration platform that acts as a control plane for deploying and managing agents across various environments.
Features of Oz
Oz provides a web interface for launching agents, selecting skills and environments, and configuring models and hosting options. It supports long-running workflows and recurring tasks, allowing agents to execute remotely while developers can inspect live sessions or transfer work between cloud and local environments without losing context. To ensure reliability during extended workflows, Oz employs techniques such as context compaction, persistent memory, and dedicated subagents for tasks like code search and file analysis.
Model Utilization and Internal Benchmarks
Warp reports that it uses GPT-5.5 for demanding agentic coding tasks, routing more complex work to stronger model configurations. In internal benchmarks, GPT-5.5 demonstrated a 30% reduction in token usage per agentic coding task compared to GPT-5.4, indicating improved efficiency for long-running agent workflows. Additionally, Warp employs OpenAI models as judge systems within its evaluation pipelines.
Impact on Development Processes
Currently, agents co-create approximately 90% of Warp’s internal pull requests, providing engineers with direct insight into the requirements for effective long-running agent orchestration, including observability, coordination, memory, and human review. Warp has nearly 1 million developers using its tools, with over 56% of Fortune 500 companies as customers.
Growth and Future Prospects
Warp attributes significant growth to the increasing demand for scalable agent workflows, reporting a 35x increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) last year and a more than 500% rise in enterprise revenue since Q4 2025. This growth reflects the company’s commitment to evolving software development through Open Agentic Development and the orchestration capabilities of Oz.
Original source: OpenAI News