Toolbox

What this appendix will cover

• Current recommended tools, which change often
• Agent canvases, such as Orca, Conductor, Omnigent, Amp, Claude Code, Codex, and Grok Build
• Orchestrators, such as FirstMate by Kun Chen
• Agent workspaces, such as OpenHands

Tools I need

Test visualizer

• A visual way to quickly understand all the tests an agent proposes
• For property-based tests, show me the invariants
• For end-to-end tests, show me the spec
• For standard unit tests, just show me the test cases
• All of it nicely visualized

Design tree visualizer

• Matt Pocock's Grill Me skill is awesome
• But you don't know how many total questions there are, and it's hard to get a summary of everything that was asked
• It does generate a spec, so you could review that
• But it might be more useful to have a visual tree where the most consequential decisions are seen at the top
• Then you can keep expanding it to get a feel for whether those are worth reviewing, or whether just the big stuff at the top is good enough

Plan conformance checker

• Takes the plan I want to review, with my schemas, my system vocabulary, and my data flows
• As part of the review and the pull request, checks the implementation against them to make sure they're all in line
• If they're not, and the agent wants to depart from them, it raises the reason for doing so
• Or maybe that's actually part of validation

Layer diff viewer

• Knows the overall system architecture, and its layers
• Evaluates this particular pull request or change against it
• Essentially shows me the new layers and how they relate to the existing ones, like a layer diagram for the change

PR design explainer

• Helps me understand the design of a PR
• I don't care about the code. I care about the design, and the approach
• Focuses on the fastest possible way for me, the human, to understand what was built
• Lets me review the design and architecture, schemas, concepts, and names