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Developer portal used in the author's client project to generate online wikis from repository docs, whose workflows expect a specific on-disk documentation location.
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Backstage's catalog is now something coding agents call at runtime, and the AiResource kind added in v1.54 records which tools a given agent may use. Platform teams still have to work out what checks that record.
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At KubeCon Europe, Whitney Lee and Viktor Farcic argued the developer's front door is now an agent. What follows is continuous ingestion over Git and Slack, plus a per-tool policy on what the agent may run without asking.
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bol has run its Backstage platform for more than five years and switched to pnpm so coding agents could work in parallel worktrees. Then came a store path two systems disagreed on and 1.42 GB of cached node_modules that saved nothing.
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An essay from a one-person AI-native shop argues the catalog governs inventory and the gateway governs single tool calls, so nothing records which projects a pending change touches or who accepted it.
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Claude Code scopes rules with paths, Cursor with globs, Copilot with a comma-delimited applyTo. Copilot reads Claude's rules directory, but not the file references inside it.
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