Anatomy of a Coding Agent: What I Learned Building My Own

A systems breakdown of what’s actually inside a coding agent: the agent loop, tool design, memory management, policy layer, and the survival engineering required to make it work on local models via Ollama.

Anatomy of a Coding Agent: What I Learned Building My Own

How many times have you told the agent the same thing this week

I caught myself, again, telling Claude that we don’t do it that way in this codebase. Not the first time that week. Not the first time that day. Different repo,…

How many times have you told the agent the same thing this week