AI agents are cool, but general-purpose coding agents rarely work as hoped or promised. They tend to go haywire with compounding errors. Think of your

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AI agents are cool, but general-purpose coding agents rarely work as hoped or promised. They tend to go haywire with compounding errors. Think of your Roomba getting stuck under a table, x1000.

This project is not trying to be an end-to-end developer. AI agents are not capable enough to reliably try to be that yet (or probably very soon). This project won't install modules, read and write multiple files, or do anything else that is highly likely to cause havoc when it inevitably fails.

It's a micro agent. It's small, focused, and does one thing as well as possible: write a test, then produce code that passes that test.

The best way to get started is to run Micro Agent in interactive mode, where it will ask you questions about the code it generates and use your feedback to improve the code it generates.

Micro Agent works with Claude, OpenAI, Ollama, or any OpenAI compatible provider such as Groq. You need to add your API key to the CLI:

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