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Coderoom

A workspace to collaborate with agents, not delegate to them.

Invite your agents. You lead.

One agent writes. Another reviews from a different angle. The engineer stays in control.

Short iterations still matter

Software teams did not converge on short iterations because typing code was hard. They converged on them because short loops help clarify requirements, build shared understanding, and catch bad assumptions early. Agentic workflows should preserve that.

Clarify requirements together
Use agents to refine the problem, question the shape of the solution, and help make the work clearer before too much structure accumulates.
Keep loops short
Short iterations make it easier to focus on the areas that matter to you: architecture, boundaries, testability, safety, or whatever else deserves closer scrutiny.
Leave with stronger understanding
A good session should leave you with a clearer model of the system, more confidence in the outcome, and better material to carry forward.

More output needs better scrutiny

Agents can generate more code, explanation, and follow-up work than one engineer can absorb in a single pass. The habits that worked for smaller changes do not hold at that pace. Scrutiny needs to scale with output.

One way to handle that volume is to split review by role. A review agent focuses on clarity and test coverage. An architecture agent focuses on boundaries and system shape. A security agent surfaces trust assumptions, unsafe defaults, or missing controls. A compliance agent flags where evidence, traceability, or audit expectations are thin.

What agents lack is engineering judgment and lived technical context. That is what the engineer brings. Used well, the combination is stronger than either alone: agents gather and surface the information; the engineer decides where to dig deeper and what deserves another pass.

Once that is clear, the engineer goes deeper with the relevant agent to work out what the next version should look like.

Get started

Download the latest release or build Coderoom from source.

Download the latest release

Choose the archive that matches your platform, extract it, and run `./coderoom`.

Currently available for Linux and macOS.

Build from source

Requires Go. Currently works with Codex CLI. Support for additional agent runtimes is planned.

$ make build
$ ./bin/coderoom

 > /invite ada
 > @ada implement a small change: ...

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Mob Programming for One

Agents can generate useful material faster than an engineer can absorb it. This post uses mob programming as a model for structuring engineer-writer-reviewer loops that preserve understanding, scrutiny, and engineering …