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Max Baluev
Max Baluev

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What should an AI coding agent learn after a failed run?

I am building AccInt (https://accint.xyz/), a local Work Model for agent-run work. The product is early, but the technical question is broader than one tool:

When an AI coding agent fails, what exactly should be learned?

Most agent-memory discussions stop at storing more context. That helps recall, but it does not answer the harder engineering question: which context, action, check, or decision actually helped a future run land?

The unit I am testing is a settled commitment:

  • What did the agent think it was going to do?
  • Which files, docs, traces, or prior runs did it retrieve?
  • What action did it take?
  • What needed human approval?
  • What did tests, reviewers, or production reality say after?
  • Which pieces should get stronger next time, and which should be penalized?

For coding agents, this can be grounded in practical signals:

  • test results
  • diffs that actually shipped
  • failed commands and their fixes
  • reviewer corrections
  • repeated repo navigation mistakes
  • whether a future similar task takes fewer steps

That is the gap I am trying to make concrete with AccInt: not just a memory store, not just a trace viewer, and not just orchestration. A local learning substrate that turns agent activity into a Work Model, running on hardware you control.

The first wedge is Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode / MCP-style workflows near real repos, because those runs already produce commitments, diffs, tests, and outcomes.

If you use coding agents seriously, I would value feedback:

  1. What evidence would you trust enough to update an agent memory?
  2. What should never be learned automatically?
  3. What would make this safe enough to use on a real codebase?

Early access / context: https://accint.xyz/

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