This is the first part of a series about why even the most powerful AI agents today need more than just access to your codebase.

They need access to the living state of the project: tasks, rules, decisions, notes, and workflow context.

In this article, I focus on the core problem. I won’t dive into architecture, Freeform boards, Git integration, or Vibeocus Lens yet — those will come in later parts.

AI is good at writing code, but weak at seeing the project

Modern AI coding assistants have become very good at writing code. Give them a prompt like this: