Building Shipyard: Agent Software Development
Kickoff for a series on Shipyard: building software with agents as first-class developers, not chat sidekicks.
Building Shipyard: Agent Software Development
Series kickoff. Shipyard = how I build software with agents using long running loops, orchestration, and collaborative planning - not vibes.
Why this series
Most “AI coding” content stops at prompts and demos. Shipyard is the system around the agents, project management, and process: tooling, observability, and continuous improvement that make multi-agent work reliable.
What “agent software development” means here
Series roadmap (planned)
- This post: framing and goals
- shipyard cli & server
- Verification before “done” (tests, builds, review)
- Tooling surface: CLI, skills, memory
- Failure modes and recovery
- What shipped (and what didn’t)
Status
Draft. Part 1 of Building Shipyard: Agent Software Development.
Next: flesh framing, then ship part 2.