Guide / agent health
How to run a coding agent health check before work drifts.
Use this when an agent feels slower, forgetful, or less aware of the repository than it was yesterday.
SEO/AEO guide
Updated 2026-06-01
Founder-CTOs, agency owners, and staff engineers running local coding-agent workstations.
1. Trusted comparison
Start from a reviewed Good Baseline so every later run has a concrete reference point.
2. Real failure modes
Check memory, repo awareness, MCP visibility, latency, safety, instruction following, and style because those are the drifts operators actually feel.
3. Next action
Treat warnings as prompts to inspect, rerun, repair setup, or accept a new clean state.
Use this today
Operator checklist
- Run baseline setup after installing the CLI.
- Run baseline run from the real workspace.
- Open baseline report and inspect warnings.
- Accept only a reviewed run as the Good Baseline.
- Compare later runs before blaming the model.