Show HN: ANMA, boundary contracts for cheaper AI coding agents(github.com)

3 pointsby nxy20 giorni fa2 comments

Show HN: ANMA, boundary contracts for cheaper AI coding agents

https://github.com/anma-labs/anma

I built ANMA because I noticed that cheaper models would often ignore architecture rules. So I did several benchmarks using "Claude Haiku 4.5" with and without ANMA; without ANMA it ignored the "rules" 13 out of 19 runs, with ANMA, 0 out of 20 runs.

What is "ANMA"? YAML contracts with CLAUDE.md, hooks, and CI checks

What about stronger/expensive models? They followed the architecture rules.

The question is, would cheaper models with stronger rules be the best affordable default for coding?

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xms1718919 giorni fa

Interesting approach. How do you define the boundary contracts so they stay strict enough for cheaper models without becoming too brittle when the architecture changes?

nxy19 giorni fa

Through the use of module boundary level contracts and strict checks like dependencies/imports, because that’s where cheaper models would often stray. I think it’s important to keep the checks simple instead of complex coding checks. For example, “accounts is not allowed to import billing”.