old-coder alternatives
Curated alternatives to old-coder — and why you'd switch.
maggy
Claude Code config pack + optional local harness: TDD-enforcing hooks, 67 skills, quality gates, persistent memory — plus a dashboard routing each task across 13 models by cost-aware blast score.
Why switchBoth enforce test-first discipline on a coding agent. Maggy does it with Claude-Code-specific hooks and quality gates you install as config; old-coder does it as provider-agnostic Markdown whose output is a report you sign off. Enforcement versus evidence.
Full comparison →three-man-team
A disciplined 3-agent dev process as context files — Architect plans, Builder builds the brief, Reviewer gates — running in one Claude Code session via subagents. Token-frugal by design.
Why switchTwo ways to keep an agent honest without reading its code. three-man-team splits the work across Architect, Builder and Reviewer roles that gate each other; old-coder keeps one agent and makes it prove itself against a mechanical gauntlet.
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