Define Your Agent in a Spec File, Not Your Application Code
Your agent's behavior is defined somewhere. The question is whether it's defined in a place that's readable, versionable, and separable from your application code — or whether it's scattered across string literals, nested function calls, and configur...
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Ethan Frost
AI builder & open-source advocate. Curating the best AI tools, prompts, and skills at tokrepo.com
This is the direction the whole ecosystem is moving — declarative agent definitions over imperative code. The spec file approach has the same advantage CLAUDE.md has for Claude Code: it separates WHAT the agent should do from HOW the runtime executes it. That means you can version control your agent behavior, diff changes in PRs, and roll back bad deployments just like any other config. The agents that win long-term will be the ones where the spec is human-readable enough that non-engineers can audit what the agent is actually allowed to do.