Directionally

my @directionallyai moment of the day Claude was patching a React app and had tests passing and build succeeding and was about to turn that into “baseline looks good” instead, because of Directionally making the agent consider the "Green Is A Vector" instinct at the right time it changed direction and separated what each check actually proved, and what it didn’t and answered a wider, more important question green, it turns out, is indeed a vector

For the last year I've spent an unhealthy amount of time watching coding agents work. And one thing kept happening. Not model failures. Not hallucinations. The annoying, recurring, expensive mistakes that happen even when the model is good. - The agent edits before looking. - Trusts the commit message instead of reading the diff. - Fixes the symptom instead of finding the source. - Changes twenty files when two would do. - Declares success without checking whether the thing actually runs. You correct it. A day later it does it again. A week later another agent does it. A month later your teammate's agent does exactly the same thing. The frustrating part wasn't that the models weren't smart enough. It was that they seemed unable to accumulate scar tissue. Humans make mistakes and develop instincts. "Check the actual config." "Look before editing." "Prove the fix." "Don't trust summaries." You don't re-learn these every day. But our agents often do. So we started asking a question: What if agent judgment could compound? What if, when your agent learned an expensive lesson, it didn't have to be learned again tomorrow in another git repo, by another model, or by another teammate? We couldn't stop thinking about this. Eventually we decided to build the thing we wished existed. That became 🧭 Directionally - directionally.ai It sits beside your coding agent and gives it better instincts at the moments they matter. When one fires, you get a receipt within your agent: 🧭 Directionally Receipt — instinct surfaced: ⚡ Commit Message Is Not A Changelog 🧠 Before instinct Trusted the commit message and prepared a review from the summary alone. 🔧 After instinct Inspected the actual diff, migrations, and touched files before forming a conclusion. 📎 Evidence Migration file modified production schema despite not being mentioned in the commit message. 📌 Why it matters The review focused on the actual change rather than the author's description of it. We're still in the stage where every onboarding call changes the product. But every founder and engineer we've spoken to about agents seems to have their own version of these stories. The details differ. The pattern doesn't. Agents are becoming incredibly capable. The next problem isn't capability. It's judgment. And I increasingly think the companies that win in the agent era won't just use smarter models. They'll figure out how to make their judgment compound. That's what we're trying to build with 🧭 Directionally. Every onboarding call so far has produced at least one: "Oh god, yes, my agent does that too." If you have one of those stories, come talk to us @directionallyai , DMs open!

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