The Birth of Bob + Chad: My Local Agentic Coding Environment
2025-11-29
For years Iโve worked as a Magento developer, but 2024โ2025 changed everything for me.
AI moved beyond โchatbotsโ and became something closer to an engineer.
I wanted something more than ChatGPT.
I wanted a system that could:
- read my code
- plan changes
- execute tools
- fix mistakes
- and improve itself
So I built it.
๐ง Bob โ The Planner
Bob is the reasoning model.
He analyses my code, designs JSON plans, and decides which tools Chad should run.
Heโs fast, structured, and has a custom rules engine I built in markdown files so he can learn from failures.
๐ง Chad โ The Junior Engineer
Chad executes Bobโs plans using:
- codemod tools
- run_python_script
- file read/write tooling
- jailed paths to prevent damage
- pytest validation
- automatic self-repair cycles
This makes the system feel like a small AI engineering team on my laptop.
๐ Self-Improvement
I added:
self_cycleto auto-generate improvement ticketsteach_rulefor Bob to store new heuristics- automatic detection of failure patterns
- safe file paths
- execution logs
The entire GhostFrog architecture now runs agentically on my Mac.
This project changed how I write code and how fast I build things.
And itโs only the beginning.