Getting coding agents (we say “clankers”: “agents” gives them too much credit) to behave in a reasonable manner is a full time job even with the latest frontier models. At Kenn, we spend so much time tuning their behavior across different repositories and projects that we started developing a “constitution” of sorts based on how we like to build software. We hope you find it useful: you can include it in your repositories or put it in your global system prompts. We will version it and keep it up to date at https://github.com/kenn-io/constitution.
Claude Code, Codex and Agentic Coding #8
When I started this series, everyone was going crazy for coding agents.
Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream
OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform is growing, according to a new report from the company.
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
Can Claude Consent to its own Constitution? AI Constitutionalism and the Paradox of Constituent Power
Frontier AI systems are trained on “constitutions” and model specifications that shape their values, reasoning, and conduct. Debate over these documents has foc
Code Is Cheap Now, And That Changes Everything | Pere Villega
AI coding agents have made code production nearly free. Drawing on insights from Kent Beck, Paul Ford, and Simon Willison, this post argues that the value has shifted from writing code to defining systems — contracts, invariants, SLAs, and verification.
New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API | Claude
Claude now offers code execution, MCP server connections, file storage, and extended prompt caching through the API—giving developers powerful tools to build agents that analyze data, connect to external systems, and maintain context for longer periods of time.
GitHub - collect-intel/osccai: Open-source Collective Constitutions for AI
Open-source Collective Constitutions for AI. Contribute to collect-intel/osccai development by creating an account on GitHub.
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
evalstate/fast-agent
Code, Build and Evaluate agents - excellent Model and Skills/MCP/ACP Support
Codex | AI Coding Partner from OpenAI
The best way to build with agents. Codex accelerates real engineering work, from planning and building features to refactors, reviews, and releases—working seamlessly across your tools.
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
OpenCode Zen | A curated set of reliable optimized models for coding agents
OpenCode - The open source coding agent.
Mckay Wrigley on Twitter / X
factorio is unironically the perfect tutorial for agentic coding systems btw. https://t.co/CCkveZ4Yzr— Mckay Wrigley (@mckaywrigley) December 27, 2025
Modal Collective
We do development, design, organizing, policy campaigning, and more to make computing more useful, secure, and resilient. Our work is centered around software infrastructure projects such as GNOME, postmarketOS, p2panda, systemd, and the Linux kernel.
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SYSTEM TEMPLATE FOR RAPID CODEBASE COMPREHENSION - HAVE YOUR AGENT TO FILL IN FOR YOUR REPO