Building My Own Coding Agent
summary
Acolyte is a locally run coding agent built from scratch that argues the model is rarely the bottleneck and the surrounding harness is what makes or breaks behavior. It uses Codex and Claude early on, Mastra for orchestration, Ink for the terminal UI and Vercel AI Gateway for multi‑model routing, implements a sandbox, step budget, tool caching and a daemon RPC, exposes 30 tools, grows to 18,000 lines then deleted thousands of lines, and works enough to develop itself but not yet fully replace other agents.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 5:45What is a coding agent
- 10:45Early challenges
- 18:35Trusting the model
- 25:20Sandboxing and capabilities
- 27:44Hardest parts
- 30:13Future of Acolyte
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