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  • Jul 28, 2026

    Testing the Loop That Runs While You Sleep

    The 15-phase run found five bugs in kodr2's loop scripts, and four of them failed silently - the run looked healthy while it was already broken. So the scripts finally got tests: a scripted kodr on PATH, a real temp git repo, 31 cases in nine seconds. Then the drift guard turned out to need a guard of its own.

    #ai#kodr#agents#automation#loops#testing
  • Jul 15, 2026

    Looping a One-Shot Harness

    Claude Code sorts agent loops by trigger and stop condition. Where does a zero-dep, one-shot harness sit? It already has the per-iteration parts - the outer loop is a shell script. The one thing a shell can't fake is a fuzzy stop condition, so kodr2 gets a `goal` command: iterate until a read-only model judge says met. The first live run caught one real bug, the next caught three more, and a 15-phase build over two long runs caught five more - one of them a fix that regressed before it stuck.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#automation#loops
  • Jul 1, 2026

    The Context Firewall

    Phases 90-93 of kodr: hybrid skill-driven orchestration, where the implementer stops drowning in its own accumulating context and each file gets an isolated author that sees its siblings' interfaces but never their code.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#skills#automation
  • Jun 30, 2026

    Async Runs and Prompt Caching

    Phases 85-87 of kodr: the web sketch grows into a task-shaped control plane with SSE, a conservative provider-aware prompt cache, and a context packer split into stable and volatile sections so a prefix cache has a chance.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#automation#prompt-engineering
  • Jun 28, 2026

    Hooks, Harder - and a Splash of Color

    Phases 77-79 of kodr: command hooks promoted to a real user surface with a Stop control, a named hook lifecycle that follows the sandbox, and zero-dependency ANSI color for the TUI.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#safety#automation
  • Jun 24, 2026

    Install It, Plan It, Heal It

    Phases 65, 71 and 72 of kodr: a controlled dependency install so generated apps can actually run, a plan-then-execute self-dev acceptance test (and the local tool-call bug it found), and a bounded self-healing repair loop that feeds real verification failures back to the model.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#automation#verification
  • Jun 20, 2026

    kodr Edits kodr

    Phases 54-56: three self-development trials where a local model edits the harness's own source. A scorecard of what broke, the harness fixes each failure forced, and the two-location bug that keeps catching small models.

    #ai#kodr#local-models#agents#automation#testing
  • Jun 3, 2026

    A Task List the Harness Can Read

    Phase 19 of kodr: a small task-plan primitive so a run can say what it thinks is done, blocked, or still pending. Early days - there is a fair bit still to come here.

    #ai#local-models#agents#automation#kodr
  • Jun 2, 2026

    Autonomy, but on a Leash

    Phase 14 of kodr: repeating a run for as long as it is useful, with a hard cycle count and explicit stop words so it never runs away.

    #ai#local-models#agents#automation#kodr
  • Jun 2, 2026

    One Repair, Then Stop

    Phase 13 of kodr: when verification fails, let the model try to fix it exactly once - and no more.

    #ai#local-models#agents#automation#kodr
  • Jun 1, 2026

    Drawing the Workflow Before Hiring the Agents

    Phase 12 of kodr: staged multi-agent coordination, modelled as plain deterministic data before a single extra model call is added.

    #ai#local-models#agents#automation#kodr
  • May 31, 2026

    The First Full Coding Loop

    Phase 10 of kodr: the moment all the careful little modules connect into a real prompt-to-patch loop.

    #ai#local-models#agents#automation#kodr
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