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Re:What Is the Most Minimal Agentic Coder You Can Write? by bhouston on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @10:19AM (#43471683)
Yes, it seems to be the same progression. This blog post covers my progression from the minimalist beginnings:

https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-...

My chronology can be summarized as:

Phase 1:

- Add async shell commands with input/output/status checking/kill - combines all of the required functionality.

- text editing that can read/write sub-blocks, rather than whole files. But not multiple files yet (but I can look into that now.)

- Add fetch

- Add browser tools with async input/output

- Add sub-agents (to reduce context, send them on research tasks or other sub-tasks to report back.)

Phase 2:

- Github mode (basically prompt it to use git and gh cli tools in its workflows)

- Github action integration (run automatically on the cloud in response to triggers)

- Token caching (reduce costs by 80%)

I will check out your planning stage. I've been having my tool run off GitHub issues so I get it to write a plan there and then implement, which is sort of the same thing in a way.

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