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Coding agents, context and verification
How to give coding agents a spec and a plan, keep context between sessions, and check what an agent built against what was agreed.
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- How we tested ArchDocs against agent rules filesHow we tested coding agents using CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md against ArchDocs task context: lesson census, blind grading, run accounting and post-hoc changes.Coding agents, context and verification
25 min read - I tried to prove ArchDocs beats a good CLAUDE.mdWith only our rules files, coding agents archived a team documents needed as approvers. With ArchDocs, they found the recorded decision. Most other tasks tied.Coding agents, context and verification
9 min read - Spec-driven development with coding agents: a practical guideWhat spec-driven development is, when a change needs it, and how to take one from requirements and open questions to a plan, a handoff and evidence you can check.Coding agents, context and verification
11 min read - My coding agent found a bug, then hit it again in 102 importsMy agent hit an editor bug while drafting a design doc, worked around it and kept a note on my machine. An hour later the same bug failed 102 of 127 imports. This is how the design doc's Work Log turned that into a record the next change can find.Coding agents, context and verification
18 min read - Make your coding agent show its workA coding agent ships faster than anyone records what it did or why. Keep a spec, a plan and evidence. Verify what shipped instead of trusting the agent.Coding agents, context and verification
7 min read - How to review a feature your coding agent builtBefore reading a large agent diff, get a map of what changed. Entry points, writes and async edges show the design changes a line-by-line read misses.Coding agents, context and verification
5 min read - Building a hosted MCP server for architecture docsA request-bound MCP server, OAuth with PKCE, and YAML compilation through the existing document services, including the limits of validation.Coding agents, context and verification
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