The Commonplace Book

Agents are great at building features, fixing bugs, optimizing code, and a myriad of other things. But one thing I’ve repeatedly noticed is how easily they miss the context a team builds up over the years: why the product works the way it does, what customers keep asking for, and which past decisions still matter.

OpenPlan gives every coding-agent plan a lifecycle, with alignment as a gate before any code is written.

Coding agents write good code, but they work from a prompt, a repo and a few context files. They miss the context a team carries in its head, so they can build a clean answer to the wrong question. Reviewing the finished plan rarely catches that, because the misunde...