ghuntley/how-to-build-a-coding-agent
A workshop that teaches you how to build your own coding agent. Similar to Roo code, Cline, Amp, Cursor, Windsurf or OpenCode.
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SDKs, agent skills, IDE extensions, and reference pipelines from Backblaze Labs. All open source.
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Where it stands
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The project lists 4 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #41 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Build a step-by-step AI-powered coding assistant that integrates with the Anthropic Claude API and progressively adds tools like file reading, shell commands, and code searching.
- Enables incremental learning and feature addition, allowing developers to understand and extend AI agent capabilities without prior AI expertise.
- Use for learning how to integrate AI chatbots with file system operations and shell command execution in Go.
- Use for creating customizable developer assistants that can read, edit, and search codebases locally.
- Use for experimenting with building tool chains and memory features to enhance AI agent workflows and automation.
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From the README
Welcome! 👋 This workshop will guide you through building your own AI-powered coding assistant — starting from a basic chatbot, and adding powerful tools like file reading, shell command execution, and code searching.
You don’t need to be an AI expert. Just follow along and build step-by-step!
🌐 Want a detailed overview? Check out the blog post: ghuntley.com/agent
You’ll build 6 versions of a coding assistant.
At the end, you’ll end up with a powerful local developer assistant!
Daily snapshots
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Forks
669+19
Open issues
10+1
Compared with peers in AI Agents
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 17.0K | +13.3K | 33 | today |
| thedotmack/claude-mem | 113.6K | +8.8K | 35 | today |
| stablyai/orca | 116.8K | +6.6K | 40 | today |
| milind-soni/OpenMausBot | 13.5K | +6.0K | 45 | today |
| HKUDS/DeepTutor | 55.5K | +5.5K | 65 | 5 days ago |
| ghuntley/how-to-build-a-coding-agent | 5.9K | — | 8 | — |
| Category median | 55.5K | +6.6K | 40 | — |
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