GoKawiilAnthropic Publishes Six-Stage Playbook for Coding-Agent Software Development
Anthropic released a framework restructuring the software development lifecycle around AI coding agents, arguing that since agents made writing code fast, the bottleneck has shifted to planning, review, and verification. The playbook defines six stages—planning, design, build, deploy, and self-checking—each producing a document like intent.md, spec.md, or plan.md that feeds the next stage, with hooks preventing agents from gaming tests and CI evals treating agent configuration itself as software.