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Basou: Open-source harness gives developers control over AI coding agents

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Basou is a new open-source tool that helps developers steer AI coding agents by capturing intent and decisions between sessions. It stores a declarative workspace and decision records as plain files locally, avoiding vendor lock-in. The tool addresses the loss of context and auditability when agents write most of the code.

Meridian48 take
While basou solves a real pain point for agent-heavy workflows, its adoption depends on developers trusting yet another tool in their stack.
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