An IDE organizes one person's work on code: editor, terminal, debugger, Git, and extensions. An Agentic Development Envi...

An IDE organizes one person's work on code: editor, terminal, debugger, Git, and extensions. An Agentic Development Environment (ADE) must also organize the work of autonomous agents — including when they run in parallel, use different models, and build context over days.That difference sounds semantic until you try to build the product. While turning AuraPunk into an ADE, the question stopped being “how do we put an AI chat inside the editor?” and became:How do we turn agent execution into engineering work that can be planned, resumed, audited, and reviewed?This post covers only the local side of that answer: workflow, state, memory, and tool integration. IDE: a session. ADE: a work system.In a traditional IDE, much of the state lives in the local session: open files, terminal, current branch, and editor history. Closing a terminal can end the operational context. Opening another machine creates another session.In an ADE, work needs to outlive the session. A card becomes more than a v...