Notes
Notes from the Amp team on building and using agents.
Subscribe via RSS →Orbs, Explained
Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?
“That's not SOC 2 compliant”
`git push origin main`
Pave The Road
A call to action, and why the latest model doesn't matter.
What I Want to Tell You About Orbs
Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you to believe me?
Putting an Agent in an Orb
How we made our codebase work for agents on headless remote machines.
Mainframe Magic
A guide to migrating COBOL code with an agent.
Feedback Loopable
Build a playground, run experiments, and make it feedback loopable.
How to Pair With an Agent
Trust isn't a feeling. It's a passing test suite.
A Codebase by an Agent for an Agent
What happens when you let an agent build a codebase for itself?
200k Tokens Is Plenty
Short threads are cheaper, better, and easier to reason about.
How We Think about Permissions
Agents work best when they can get feedback about the changes they are making.
Agents for the Agent
Amp now has new subagents and they're more powerful than ever.
Amp is now available. Here's how I use it.
How I personally use Amp to develop software.
How We Build
How we build Amp.
Frequently Ignored Feedback (FIF)
Our responses to common feedback that we are intentionally not acting on.









