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16 articles tagged Coding agents, newest first. Each one is sourced and written for people who ship.
AI agents
·12 min read
How to use Claude in OpenCode: the new Claude Agent provider on your Claude plan, API keys, Console, Copilot and OpenRouter, with costs and limits.
AI agents
·11 min read
How to use coding agents on a legacy migration: characterization tests first, one seam per task, review gates and differential verification.
AI agents
·12 min read
How async coding agents queue tasks, run in sandboxes, open draft PRs and pass CI. Provider limits, cost controls, review design and failure modes.
Security & compliance
·6 min read
How LLMs hallucinate package names, how attackers register them, and the registry, lockfile and agent-harness controls that stop the install.
AI agents
·7 min read
Where AI agents help with end-to-end tests: Playwright planner, generator and healer, MCP or CLI, and the guardrails that keep healed tests honest.
Retrieval & search
·8 min read
How coding agents find code: AST chunking with tree-sitter, repo maps, Merkle-tree index sync, code embedding models in 2026, and when grep beats an index.
AI agents
·11 min read
Vibe coding breaks on real codebases. Write a spec with acceptance criteria, a plan and tasks, let the agent tick them off, and agree it before any code.
AI agents
·10 min read
A review of Aider 0.86.2, an Apache-2.0 terminal pair programmer whose benchmark ranks models honestly and whose release cadence has stopped.
AI agents
·9 min read
OpenHands 1.25.0: an MIT-licensed coding agent platform with a web canvas, CLI, sandboxed execution and scheduled automations, and where it gets heavy.
AI agents
·8 min read
Harness engineering for coding agents: guides and sensors, where to run each check, red/green TDD, and mutation testing of the tests the agent wrote.
AI agents
·10 min read
Cursor bundles an editor, a terminal agent and cloud runs in one plan. What its two usage pools cost, and when Copilot, Claude Code or Cline wins.
AI agents
·11 min read
OpenAI Codex CLI, the open-source terminal coding agent: how its sandbox, approval policy and config.toml work, and what unattended CI runs cost.
AI agents
·10 min read
GitHub's cloud coding agent takes an issue and opens a pull request. What the 59-minute session limit, AI credits and review duty mean in production.
AI agents
·10 min read
Goose, an Apache-2.0 Rust coding agent under the Linux Foundation: how its permissions, recipes and MCP extensions compare with commercial tools.
AI agents
·10 min read
How the agent loop works in code, which stop conditions and budgets to enforce, and how outer loops like Ralph and Claude Code /loop and /goal behave.
AI agents
·11 min read
Cline: an Apache-2.0 agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal. What Plan and Act, checkpoints and auto-approve guarantee, and where safety leaks.