Design a Coding Agent

Here is what every working session of a coding agent does before it edits a single file.

function startWorkingSession(repo) {
  const notes = repo.read("progress.md")
  const features = JSON.parse(repo.read("features.json"))
  const recent = repo.history({ last: 10 })

  repo.run("./init.sh")                     // Start the project the same way every time
  const baseline = runTests(repo)           // Find out whether the last session left it broken

  if (baseline.brokenByLastSession) return repairFirst(baseline, notes)

  const item = features.find((f) => !f.passes)