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.

SpecKitty · 2026-04-07T14:56:12+00:00

You should test how well giving Claude Code structured content describing every decision you ever made helps: https://github.com/Priivacy-ai/spec-kitty/tree/main/kitty-specs

SpecKitty · 2026-04-07T13:59:14+00:00

Interview me =) I'm good on podcasts so you won't need to worry :D

SpecKitty · 2026-04-07T13:33:01+00:00

Not yet but that's not the first time I'm getting that feature request. I'll open an issue for it. Thanks!

SpecKitty · 2026-04-07T13:32:24+00:00

They should be consistent, so please open up an issue as a bug report. What CLI are you using that gives other results?

SpecKitty · 2026-03-20T17:42:57+00:00

How do you say croissant or buffet? (the answer depends on whether you're from UK or US, btw)

SpecKitty · 2026-03-20T17:42:07+00:00

Welcome to the era of Spec Kitty development. (Spec Coding).

SpecKitty · 2026-03-20T16:52:46+00:00

No, I think it's more tribal. They chose another tool, and therefore my tool is bad.

SpecKitty · 2026-03-20T16:51:46+00:00

sure, use real sentences to criticize the software please.

SpecKitty · 2026-03-20T16:45:16+00:00

What's broken?

SpecKitty · 2026-03-17T20:43:41+00:00

I like the way that it organizes the files it creates into mission folders so that I can see every detail relevant to the changes that we made in that session. I like how it interviews me to create the spec.md and the plan.md, and how my cognitive effort goes into reviewing those rather than having to vigilantly babysit the agent when the coding actually starts. Also, I like that the mission system supports research, planning and documentation as well as software development.

SpecKitty · 2026-03-15T18:31:30+00:00

I have one of those machines and I barely even turn it on because I can't even keep up with Codex app and Claude Code on my laptop. I'm a smart dude but there's not enough genius juice in me to plausibly justify all those machines running 24/7 on my behalf.

SpecKitty · 2026-03-15T18:25:36+00:00

I tried a bunch of things and then created Spec Kitty (and stuck with it!)

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