Agent Readiness

Evaluate how well a codebase supports autonomous AI development across eight technical pillars and five maturity levels.

Core Concept

Agent performance problems are often environment problems, not model problems. Missing pre-commit hooks mean waiting minutes for CI feedback instead of seconds. Undocumented environment variables cause guess-and-fail loops. Build processes requiring tribal knowledge block agents entirely.

A codebase with fast feedback loops and clear instructions makes any agent dramatically more effective.

Eight Technical Pillars

Each pillar addresses a specific failure mode in autonomous development.

1. Style & Validation

Linters, type checkers, formatters (ESLint, Biome, TypeScript strict mode, Prettier, Black). Without this: Agent submits code with formatting issues, waits for CI, fixes blindly, repeats.