Layer / What should be built
Intent
How work enters the factory: issues, specs, customer reports, and the human decisions that define done.
- Context7
Up-to-date library docs injected into coding agents.
- DSPy
Stanford’s framework for programming — not prompting — LMs.
- Factory
Droids across the SDLC, sold as a software factory.
- Fern
OpenAPI-to-SDKs and docs, an alternative to Stainless.
- GitHub Copilot
Incumbent coding assistant with a cloud coding agent on GitHub.
- Graphite
Stacked PRs plus AI review, aimed at a faster merge path.
- Linear
Issue tracker that became an intent API for coding agents.
- LlamaIndex
Data framework for LLM apps that grew workflows and agents.
- Mintlify
Docs platform that treats agent-readable documentation as a product.
- n8n
Open workflow automation that now grows agent nodes.
- Spec Kit
GitHub’s toolkit for spec-driven development with coding agents.
- SpecStory
Capture AI IDE sessions so intent does not die in the chat.
- Stainless
SDK generation from an OpenAPI spec — a machine-readable intent.
- Tessl
Spec-first platform for building software with agents.
- v0
Vercel’s UI generator that ships into a Next.js repo.