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The weekly · Week 31 · 27 Jul – 2 Aug 2026

AI coding agents: what changed

This week's items cover tools and write-ups for building, running, tracing and securing AI coding agents, from design languages to terminal managers and TPU serving.

7 picks

01GitHub★ 76,986

Impeccable: A Design Language for AI Tools

Impeccable is a design language that helps AI coding tools produce better-designed output. It is aimed at developers who build interfaces with AI agents.

Image: GitHub

02DEV

Building AI Agents with Kotlin ADK

A tutorial that builds a starter Hello World style agent using Kotlin and the native Kotlin version of the Agent Development Kit. It suits Kotlin developers new to agents.

03GitHub★ 570

Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Coding Agents

Agent-Manager is a tmux terminal interface for running AI coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex. It offers live status, quick prompts, worktrees and diff review.

Image: GitHub

05DEV

Audit AI Agents With Public Repo Write Access

An article warning that AI agents with write access to public repositories should be audited. It describes a private repository breached this month without a zero-day or stolen credentials.

06DEV

Why AI Agents Need Finite State Machines

An article arguing that AI agents benefit from finite state machines, following the author's earlier point that AI changes the role of constraints in software.

07DEV

Serving Eight Agents on One TPU Chip

A write-up on serving small agent workloads with raw JAX on a single Cloud TPU v6e chip with 32 GB HBM, using GCE flex-start in europe-west4-a.

Picked from public sources (GitHub, Hacker News, DEV, Lobsters, Reddit, Product Hunt) by our daily scout. Each summary uses only what the source itself says; GitHub stars are as checked on the date shown.