Agent Workflow
7 posts
Acceptance criteria that actually work
Treat acceptance criteria as executable contracts, not prose wishes. What makes a criterion verifiable, plus a rewrite table of common bad ones.
How to write specs for coding agents
A practical guide to specs an LLM can execute — non-goals, verifiable criteria, named interfaces, and decisions with rationale that survive review.
ZeNorm vs. AWS Kiro
Kiro closes the loop inside its own IDE with click-through approvals. ZeNorm gates on a score and hands off to your agent. A mechanism comparison, honestly.
ZeNorm vs. GitHub Spec Kit
Spec Kit is free MIT-licensed prompt templates run by your own agent. ZeNorm runs a server that refuses. A mechanism comparison, and when Spec Kit wins.
ZeNorm vs. Traycer
Traycer plans and reviews inside your editor. ZeNorm refuses to emit tasks until the spec scores. A mechanism-level comparison, with when to pick Traycer.
The 70% problem in AI-assisted coding
Why agents get a feature 70% done in minutes and the last 30% takes longer than writing it yourself — and what to do about it.
Why AI coding agents lose context
The mechanics of context loss in long agent sessions — what gets evicted, why compaction is lossy, and what actually survives a session boundary.