Coding Agent v3: Formal Methods Planning
A third-generation coding agent that reasons ahead using Formal Methods — verifying deployment plans for correctness before execution and hardening configurations against known failure classes.
Coding Agent v3 introduces a planning layer built on Formal Methods. Before executing any deployment change, the agent constructs a model of the target system state and verifies it against a set of invariants — catching logical errors, race conditions, and misconfiguration classes that runtime testing cannot reliably surface.
The formal layer encodes deployment properties as machine-checkable specifications: replica count constraints, network topology consistency, volume attachment exclusivity, and health check convergence. Plans that violate any invariant are rejected before a single container is scheduled, with a precise explanation of which property failed and why.
Hardening mode extends this to existing deployments: the agent audits a running workload's configuration against the invariant library, surfaces gaps between intended and actual state, and proposes targeted fixes. This closes the loop between what was specified and what is running — and guarantees it will keep running under expected failure conditions.