Giving my agent a map of the codebase (drawn partly from its own footsteps)

Originally published at olund.dev.

Watch a coding agent land in an unfamiliar repository and you will see it do

what a new hire does on day one: grep for names, list directories, open

files, and slowly assemble a mental model. Unlike the hire, the agent does

this every session. The model it builds is discarded when the context