#harness-engineering

Turning Repo Maintenance into Markdown: Keeping a Rust Codebase Alive with Agentic Workflows

Long-lived repositories drift: deprecated components linger, layers bleed, and tests miss the functions that actually break. In my own study I turned three recurring chores into scheduled markdown workflows the repo runs on itself, then wrote up what I learned about capping blast radius, pairing LLM checks with deterministic scans, and letting agents draft shapes while I write the substance.