HACKER Q&A
📣 notshore

Line by Line Agentic Coding


I've been suckered into running claude code and codex independently and vaguely scanning the output before moving on. I don't love the code-base familiarity that produces.

Anybody figure out a neat harness setup where one goes file by file, method by method with the agent? Looking for suggestions and what the SOTA is for this sort of thing.


  👤 tripplyons Accepted Answer ✓
I like to use Pi (https://pi.dev/), and I recently got it to make an approval extension for itself. It has a lot of documentation built-in for the agent to modify the behavior of the app.

I got it to display all proposed file change diffs and bash commands and made it so I can either approve the action or deny it with a message for it.

It was surprisingly easy to tell it to modify things things the diff viewing algorithm or syntax highlighting for the diffs.