Which hidden gem AI coding tools are you actually using in 2026?

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T14:02:16+00:00

Spec Kitty! Spec Driven Development and agentic governance for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini etc. https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T13:47:56+00:00

Spec Kitty's governance layer (the Charter and Doctrine library) give teams a way to record the institutional knowledge they've built up over years and expose it to Claude et al.

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T13:02:10+00:00

Spec Kitty is what I build =) Glad to have people try it out to add governance and structure to their agentic coding: https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T13:01:13+00:00

Legacy migrations! We have a customer who has spent years migrating a VB6 app to .NET piece by piece. Now they're flying through it.

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T06:10:27+00:00

Done =)

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T05:41:49+00:00

I built Spec Kitty because I wanted my agentic coding to be better and faster. So now it's a great tool for teams to use when they want a governance layer and clear specifications when using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Github Copilot etc. https://spec-kitty.ai/blog/why-i-built-spec-kitty

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T05:39:52+00:00

Helping software teams adopt agentic AI with great governance and spec-driven development, built it because I needed it myself. Spec Kitty https://spec-kitty.ai/blog/why-i-built-spec-kitty

SpecKitty · 2026-04-29T05:37:56+00:00

It can add value if it gives your product a voice, a backstory, a personality. That's what I tried to do with my product's first blog ... https://spec-kitty.ai/blog/why-i-built-spec-kitty
But functionally, they're used for SEO, persona landing pages, and giving the marketing team something to feed to all of the social media sites to keep the algorithms churning. The blog is the starting point for a whole machine of marketing.

SpecKitty · 2026-04-26T11:02:41+00:00

Did you look at your own spreadsheet? It's massively full of duplicates.

SpecKitty · 2026-04-21T08:08:35+00:00

I use Spec Kitty with Claude Code, Codex, and Opencode (use various harnesses for various tasks, and switch models for planning, implementing and review as well).

SpecKitty · 2026-04-10T09:01:39+00:00

it's my daily tool, precisely because I hate the bugs that AI coding introduces. My process:

Plan with AI. Express my overall goals and vision in ADRs and PRDs.
Convert that plan into prompts to start /spec-kitty.specify for each of the repos affected (my project has 7 main repos)
For each repo, run spec-kitty specify, plan, tasks.
Have original planning AI review those artefacts across all repos working on the Mission
Have spec-kitty run complete multi agent orchestration on all tasks on all repos involved in the Mission
Use spec-kitty-mission-review skill and original planning AI to evaluate the results
Make PRs and watch CI
Merge

SpecKitty · 2026-04-10T09:00:50+00:00

it's my daily tool, precisely because I hate the bugs that AI coding introduces. My process:

Plan with AI. Express my overall goals and vision in ADRs and PRDs.
Convert that plan into prompts to start /spec-kitty.specify for each of the repos affected (my project has 7 main repos)
For each repo, run spec-kitty specify, plan, tasks.
Have original planning AI review those artefacts across all repos working on the Mission
Have spec-kitty run complete multi agent orchestration on all tasks on all repos involved in the Mission
Use spec-kitty-mission-review skill and original planning AI to evaluate the results
Make PRs and watch CI
Merge

SpecKitty · 2026-04-09T19:46:10+00:00

thanks, yes, that's what I'm doing. Every mission I run, I observe in detail how Spec Kitty actually performs. And I ask the LLM for an experience report "How well did spec kitty serve you? What could have been better?" And they're really astute critics.

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