Reading up on Aider

An agent harness is the execution layer around an LLM that manages loops, tools, context, and guardrails, turning model predictions into usable work.

Bobbin, a dependency-free Ollama‑based coding agent, achieves parity with aider on real‑code tasks and shows advantages in multi‑file refactors while enabling local security testing.

Anthropic shares the inside story of Claude Code's development from an internal CLI tool to a widely used coding agent, highlighting design decisions and team insights.

Hasp is a local secret broker that injects credentials into coding agent processes without the agent ever reading the plaintext value.