Building the developer experience for the post-2025 era.
The way we build software is fundamentally changing. AI coding agents are becoming trusted collaborators, not just autocomplete tools. This shift demands new patterns, new guardrails, and new ways of thinking about the human-AI development workflow.
Modern Tooling creates open-source projects that embrace this future while keeping humans in control.
A container-based lab for humans and AI coding agents to think, plan, code, and operate in an experimental space protected by guardrails.
- Standalone or sidecar — Works as your devcontainer or alongside existing ones
- Agent-ready — Pre-configured for Claude, Gastown, and other AI coding tools
- Safe experimentation — Container isolation limits blast radius when running agents with elevated permissions
brew install modern-tooling/tap/work-labA convention for marking documentation audience: human-crafted content that should be preserved vs. AI-maintainable content that agents can freely update.
- Protects human voice — Prevents AI from homogenizing carefully crafted documentation
- Enables AI efficiency — Lets agents confidently update technical reference material
- Simple convention — Just a
<!-- doc-audience: human -->comment at line 1
- Humans stay in control. AI assists, humans decide.
- Boring is good. No clever abstractions. No magic.
- Optional always. Nothing here is required.
- Clear boundaries. Separate concerns, reduce coupling.
These projects are open source and welcome contributions. Star the repos, open issues, or submit PRs.