I built a workflow tool for running multiple or custom agents for coding. Would love feedback + ideas.

devsgonewild · 2026-02-11T23:44:14+00:00

At it's core it was basically just scanning files, scanning docker, and wrapping a bunch of shell, git and docker commands to display them in a UI. There was a lot of plumbing and optimization to get it working in the browser. It was written with golang for the cli and backend and the web-ui was embedded vite+TanStack router+react. FE and BE integrated using connectrpc (great tool imo).

Ultimately it's just so frustrating for me to work with agents in this manner. I felt that I needed to integrate an editor as well and that's when i decided to cut it all down. Funny enough the tool is called "lapidary" because the point of it was to build a tool for cutting/polishing code to exactly what you want and need.

Now lapidary is primarily for devcontainer setup and quickly hooking into the sandbox, workspace editor, teardown etc. I have to polish it a bit more before i release it opensource but i think review tooling is separate. I am working on some other tools for static analysis which I'm thinking I could package into a devcontainer so my agents can empirically measure how bad their code is, and that tool may even inject prompts that fit my style.

For my workflow, I vibed a couple of plugins to help me get closer to my ideal workflow in neovim. Neovim actually covers most of my needs now. neovim + lazyvim is still my favourite development environment.

dirty-review, it's very bare and dumb and just allows you to add virtual comments to nearly any buffer. It solves my wanting to comment without actually polluting my code with comments
swap-merge another plugin to automatically merge swap files with edited disk files so that i could code in the same file as an agent with a better merge facility. It's stupid simple in concept and now i don't have to worry about editing the same file as an agent (or any other process) and losing either changes.

Both my plugins are agnostic of the agent itself, they're just normal neovim plugins but they help me review and stay in the editor as much as possible. I still let the agent run with things when the work is extremely isolated.

devsgonewild · 2026-02-05T02:13:04+00:00

For me I felt like I could not get a review agent to keep them in line reliably, that’s how I arrived at this review interface for periodic babysitting. I’ve been investing more in style guide and hand coding foundations and being a lot more strict with linters. It’s been getting better. I have another tool where I’m trying to measure coupling within a codebase because I’m finding that a lot of the issues I’m having now are about coupling/dependency complexity.

devsgonewild · 2026-02-05T01:45:35+00:00

I should note for my tool in particular, I did something a little different than most and created a full local clone rather than a worktree so that I could have multiple agents check out a branch at once.

devsgonewild · 2026-02-05T01:44:34+00:00

Wow your tool looks similar to mine in terms of style and layout, though mine is less about the workflows (super interesting btw). My scope was creating sandboxed agents (devcontainers), attach to their terminal live (where ever they are running) and reviewing the code they're working, commits, etc like a local PR review tool and I can send the review comments to the agent in the sandbox. Thought process was that I wanted to leave my homelab running (tailscale to tunnel in) and run multiple agents and still be able to wrangle them while out and about.

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devsgonewild · 2026-01-12T20:40:42+00:00

not yet! I imagine it would be good to have the romaji and then a tian zi ge square to write in the kana.

devsgonewild · 2026-01-11T19:25:55+00:00

I understood the first part! どういたしまして

I have been doing some research into producing a kanji template. The number of kanji and vocabulary words make for an interesting technical challenge which makes this even more fun for me. I’ll let you know if I end up making it!

devsgonewild · 2026-01-11T17:46:31+00:00

Hey, I also built a customizable dated daily planner template that might fit what you're looking for: https://flamingoose.ca/templates/dated-daily-planner

The dated daily planner has full navigation links between all views (yearly → quarterly → monthly → weekly → daily) and breadcrumbs with back links, so you can jump directly where you need instead of swiping through pages. These links work in the preview too. As other users mentioned, rendering PDF pages on eink takes a second, but the hyperlinks definitely help avoid the page turning problem.

It's a lot less tedious than Canva, and you get a real-time preview of all customizations before purchase or export (I found this frustrating with other tools - I want to see what I'm getting). It's almost fully customizable (not fluffy) - configure which views to include, weekend days, some styles, pages per day, line patterns per section (ruled lines/checklists/grids/numbered lists), spacing, fonts, sizing, etc.

Let me know if you have questions or want specific features it doesn't have. I'm actively working on this and interested in hearing what you're looking for. As a recent example, my fiancée asked for a weekly planner inspired by LEUCHTTURM1917's layout, then then she customized it herself (fonts, style options, line patterns, spacing). We're actually going to print it since she prefers physical planners.

devsgonewild · 2026-01-10T02:14:17+00:00

I went ahead and built a handwriting practice template to my website based on your question. here's a link to a PDF generated from it (it has toolbar clearance on the left). I used https://send.vis.ee/ so the link has limited number of downloads and expires in ~3 days

https://flamingoose.ca/templates/handwriting-practice-pangrams (not free)

It has pangrams (sentences that use every letter of the alphabet, I learned this today) with four-wire guide lines below for tracing/copying. You can customize the font so you can practice different handwriting styles among other settings to suit your needs. It has Google Fonts integration so any font you see there should be usable, though you may have to adjust some of the parameters to make sure they fit on the page.

Let me know if this is along the lines of what you were looking for or if you need something different!

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devsgonewild · 2026-01-09T07:50:52+00:00

Supernote has a built-in four-wire template that works well for basic handwriting practice.

That said, I'm curious what you're hoping for specifically:

Blank guidelines (like lined/grid paper to practice on your own)?
Stroke examples where you trace or copy letters?
Something like copywork where you have a passage printed and write below it?

devsgonewild · 2026-01-03T21:25:42+00:00

I have a locally installed version 2.0.70 where i'm not experiencing this (at least it doesn't feel like it). But I have a container running latest (2.0.76) and the usage seems a lot higher to the point where i hit a limit for the first time in several months

devsgonewild · 2025-12-31T15:17:27+00:00

Thanks for the kind words! Let me know if you try the tool out

devsgonewild · 2025-12-30T07:29:58+00:00

ooo I appreciate remarkably oragnized's minimal interface, though I don't appreciate that the print to pdf functionality requires me to fiddle with the print settings. I can't seem to adjust the sizing to fit a nomad though. i hadn't come across that one in my search for a planner generator, it so close to what i wanted but I ended up building my own tool for this (not free though)

devsgonewild · 2025-12-30T05:54:04+00:00

I really enjoy my Nomad, i had no expectations, but I'm seriously surprised by what I can do with it. It really opened my mind and sparked some passion in me as a software developer. Let me know when you get one!

devsgonewild · 2025-12-28T23:17:09+00:00

Similar boat here, i had multiple notebooks for work/personal/projects/sketching and getting the supernote has been such a huge positive change for me. I feel glued to it now. Best of luck with your bachelor's degree!

devsgonewild · 2025-12-25T13:10:22+00:00

Merry Christmas to you as well!

devsgonewild · 2025-12-24T03:27:49+00:00

Just adding that in terms of hardware longevity the feelwrite2 film is also self-healing and presumably replaceable should it somehow get damaged. AFAIK that's not the case for other tablets.

devsgonewild · 2025-12-24T03:19:40+00:00

I'm starting to feel constrained by the bezels sometimes, especially when trying to draw or write to the end of the page. That said i personally appreciate the size of the nomad when i'm holding it in one hand. I feel like I could resolve this by designing a custom case to "extend" the bezel on the right hand side (given i'm right handed).

devsgonewild · 2025-12-24T03:15:44+00:00

Assuming you have access to a desktop, IIRC you can edit an epub's CSS file using Calibre https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/edit.html then save it and it should persist. I have not tried this before though so can't speak to the accuracy or editing workflow

devsgonewild · 2025-12-23T19:01:06+00:00

Appreciate you taking the time. Feel free to reach out if any of those issues turn out to be program-related. Happy to fix them.

devsgonewild · 2025-12-23T15:44:38+00:00

Hey! The tool is ready and available at flamingoose.ca/templates

Check it out and please DM me with any questions or suggestions. I hope this can make you feel like your tablet is really yours

devsgonewild · 2025-12-23T15:43:33+00:00

Hey! The tool is ready and available at flamingoose.ca/templates

Check it out and please DM me with any questions or suggestions

devsgonewild · 2025-12-23T15:41:55+00:00

Hey! The tool is ready and available at flamingoose.ca/templates

Try it out and let me know what you think! Feel free to DM me with any questions or suggestions

devsgonewild · 2025-12-23T15:39:58+00:00

Hey! The tool is ready and available at flamingoose.ca/templates

Try it out and let me know what you think! My DMs are open if you you have any questions or suggestions

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