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Original: https://martinfowler.com/articles/sensors-for-coding-agents.html
Status: generated
Language: en
Summary
A practical follow-up by Birgitta Böckeler, published on martinfowler.com in May 2026, to her guides-and-sensors model of a coding agent’s harness, reporting her experience using sensors to keep an AI-built TypeScript application maintainable. She walks through basic linting with custom self-correction messages, dependency rules, coupling metrics, an LLM-based modularity review and mutation testing, concluding that computational sensors work best at the file and function level while cross-file design concerns need an inferential sensor’s semantic interpretation, and describes the sidecar CLI she built to feed sensor results to the agent.