Coding agents
What the codedoesn't say.
Claude Code and Codex decide things on their own while they work. They leave things for later and run into gotchas. None of it shows in the code. Emargen keeps it: as a note for the engineer who ran the session, and as a question or a change request for the people who planned the work.
Who sees what.
One afternoon at ACME. Jonas builds the second slice of Lena's plan, "Approve within your warehouse", with Claude Code.
For engineers
What your agent decided without you.
When Claude Code or Codex works with you in a repository, it leaves you a note for what you should know and the code doesn't say. One note per subject, written as it happens.
- Decision
- What it chose on its own, and why.
- Todo
- What it left for later.
- Gotcha
- What would cost the next person an afternoon.
- Idea
- What's worth keeping, but not now.
A note can become a plan.
A note stays yours until you turn it into something others can use: a page to work it through, a new initiative with its brief drafted from your notes, or a change request on the plan you're building.
Yesterday's notes on one page, every morning.
Ask an agent once, in your own words. Every weekday it reads your notes from the day before and writes you one page: what was decided, what's left, what to look at first.
For product managers
When the code can't follow the plan, you decide.
Coding agents take their tasks from the slices you approved. They add the tasks they find and close each one with its merge request, so you see the work move without asking anyone where it stands.
When only the plan's people can answer something, the agent asks them, in their inbox. When what's being built can't meet what was planned, it proposes a change. Emargen writes the options; the plan's owner chooses. The plan changes only when a person decides.
A warehouse on each audit row adds a column to the weekly export. Brakeline and Northgate import that file.
Keep the agent you already use.
Each person connects their own agent once, and it works in Emargen as them: it reads only what they may read, and what it writes carries their name.
Emargen doesn't write your code or run your agent. It gives your agent the plan, and keeps what your agent tells you.
The clients and the people here are invented to show how the work happens.