I've been busy building and dogfooding open-artisan for my own development purposes. I've diverged quite a bit from main and am hoping to merge some of those changes back soon. It's basically an OpenCode plugin that forces open-code token-hungry state machine that tries to map the engineering process I follow, exposing only valid tools and states at every step of development. If you're interested, in following along or trying it out, it's available here:
Hopefully, I'll merge in my large structural changes in the next couple of weeks. These structural changes will enhance the state machine meaningfully, as well as adding support for hermes agenet.
I agree with this to some degree. Agents often stub and take shortcuts during implementation. I've been working on this problem a little bit with open-artisan which I published yesterday (https://github.com/yehudacohen/open-artisan).
Rather than having agents decide to manage their own code lifecycle, define a state machine where code moves from agent to agent and isolated agents critique each others code until the code produced is excellent quality.
This is still a bit of an token hungry solution, but it seems to be working reasonably well so far and I'm actively refining it as I build.
Not going to give you formal verification, but might be worth looking into strategies like this.
Author here, and I mostly agree with this sentiment. With that said, part of my Kiro spec here, had Kiro read my other blog posts and attempt to emulate my style.
I too found the write-up to be a little dry and long-winded, even though the same critique might be leveled at myself [hopefully to a lesser extent]. I did feel like it was a good step up from the usual AI slop out there, and served to illustrate Kiro's capabilities.
I suppose in this context, I wanted to see whether I could take my reader on a journey long enough for them to be surprised by the AI reveal at the end. I'm not sure whether it achieved that but that was the artistic intent of this specific piece.
https://github.com/yehudacohen/open-artisan/
Hopefully, I'll merge in my large structural changes in the next couple of weeks. These structural changes will enhance the state machine meaningfully, as well as adding support for hermes agenet.
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