- What changed
- Orcrist released an open source desktop coding agent using a domain specific language for LLM state machines with declared failure paths.
- Why you should care
- Using explicit state machines instead of flat to do lists allows developers to declare failure paths and retry budgets for coding agents.
- Your move
- Test. Evaluate state machine orchestration for coding agents to handle complex failure loops.
- What to watch next
- Community feedback and benchmark evaluations of state machine driven coding agents.
- Event
- release
- Event date
- Sep 12, 2026
- Relevant to
- General AI readers