Six Key Components of a Coding Agent: How Modern AI Systems Write Code
Coding agents integrate LLMs with tools, memory, and repository context to outperform plain chat interfaces. The author identifies six main building blocks: live repo context, prompt shape and cache reuse, structured tools with validation, context reduction, transcripts and memory, and delegation via subagents. The surrounding system often matters as much as the model itself.
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