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Components of A Coding Agent
Coding agents are systems that wrap an LLM in a control loop with tools, memory, and environment context, allowing them to iteratively inspect, decide, and act rather than just generate text. Their effectiveness comes less from the model itself and more from the surrounding harness—especially components like repo context, tool execution, memory, and context management—which together make them far more capable for real-world coding tasks than a plain chat interface.
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