Show HN: Boffin – Staff-engineer layer for AI coding agents
Boffin is a new control layer for AI coding agents designed to enforce architectural constraints during software development. Unlike static rule files, it dynamically routes relevant constraints to the specific file being edited and requires verification of the output.
Why it matters
As AI coding agents become more prevalent, tools that ensure code quality and architectural integrity are essential for preventing large-scale, unverified code changes in production environments.
Boffin (npm: boffinit ) is a staff-engineer control layer for AI coding agents: it feeds the agent the architectural constraints for the exact file it is editing and makes it verify the result -- DuckDB case study : a guided refactor landed at +17 / -17 lines with 2,104 assertions passing.
You ask for a 15-line fix; the agent comes back with a 500-line renovation. Boffin gives the agent the architectural constraints that apply to the file it is about to touch, then makes it verify the result.
It is not another AGENTS.md and not a prompt pack. Those formats usually ship one static instructions block for the whole repository; Boffin routes only the constraints relevant to the current edit. Powered by ParselFire Core .
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