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Developers push back on the idea that AI agents need monorepos

Original: Lots of 2026 posts say AI agents need monorepos so they can see everything. We went the other way: one repo = one packag

A developer writing about 2026 software practices says many posts argue AI coding agents need monorepos so they can see all code at once. Crimson206 describes going the opposite way: each repository holds one package, and packages depend on each other only through published, pinned versions, so an agent opens a single repo and relies on the dependency graph to understand everything else.

Why now: Ongoing debate in 2026 over how to structure codebases for AI coding agents.

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• Lots of 2026 posts say AI agents need monorepos so they can see everything. We went the other way: one repo = one package, and packages depend on each other only through published, pinned versions. An agent opens one repo and works there; the dependency graph tells it what else… · crimson206 · 1

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