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A reproducible environment for agent projects

Agent projects fail in boring ways: a drifted dependency, a missing CLI, a secret in the wrong place.

Paper
EL-005
Version
v2.0
Status
Published
Published
May 14, 2026
Updated
Jul 2, 2026
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Abstract

Agent projects fail in boring ways: a drifted dependency, a missing CLI, a secret in the wrong place. A devcontainer-based template that makes every project run identically on day one.

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@misc{lovett2026005,
  title        = {A reproducible environment for agent projects},
  author       = {Edwin Lovett},
  year         = {2026},
  note         = {EL-005, v2.0},
  howpublished = {\url{https://edwinlovett.com/writing/el-005/}}
}
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