Co-founder of SpecStory · ex-CPO at Pluralsight · Data at GitHub, Dropbox & Google Intent is the new source code. I build the tools that turn it into shipped product.
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I co-founded SpecStory in November 2024 because I believe intent is the new source code. Software's bottleneck has moved from how fast we type to how clearly we think; my white paper Beyond Code-Centric lays out the case. Today we're building Stoa, the local-first, human-centric multiplayer room where product teams turn intent into shipped product. I also advise AI and developer-tool companies across Tola Capital's portfolio.
Most of the code I write these days runs through Claude Code and Codex. I save those AI chats and turn them into reusable, contextual knowledge with the OSS SpecStory extensions below.
Open source I create and maintain: local-first tooling for the agentic era.
| Project | Stars | Lang | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| getspecstory |  |  | Local-first extensions for your AI IDE or terminal agent. Save every chat and sync your conversations to the cloud. |
| lore |  |  | Your SpecStory sessions are your lore. Forge them into reusable skills your agents can draw on. |
| unmint |  |  | Beautiful Mintlify-style docs, minus the price tag. An open-source alternative. → unmint.dev |
| deadreckon |  |  | Run your coding agent unattended, and trust the result. Isolated sandbox, durable per-turn state, and a watchdog gate the agent can't fool. → deadreckon.sh |
| rookery |  | | "Rook," a local ACP-oriented agent runtime with web, Obsidian, macOS menu-bar, and location-aware iPhone clients. |
| newsmap |  | | A NewsMap-style news treemap driven by your own custom RSS/Atom feeds. → newsmap.gregceccarelli.com |
A new live course on Maven. Driving agents is the engineering skill with the highest ceiling right now, and the unit of review is a goal, not a diff. I teach it the way we practice it at SpecStory: you build a real agentic harness, run it on your own repo, and walk out proving your agent's work before you push.
Three weeks · your repo · live in Stoa (not Zoom) · ends with a Demo Day where you ship and prove it.
I write weekly Meditations on Tech on Substack. Longer technical pieces live on gregceccarelli.com:
| Date | Piece | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| May 2026 | Goal Engineering | Getting agents to reliably hit the target you actually meant. |
| Jul 2025 | Building a Product Video with AI | A 39-second SpecStory product video, built with Remotion and natural-language iteration. |
| Jun 2025 | Beyond Code-Centric | Why specification, not typing speed, is now the bottleneck in software. |
| May 2025 | Creating 'The Open Window' with AI | 10 hours, 5 tools, and many lessons in AI filmmaking. |
| Feb 2025 | More Power, New Problems | The double-edged sword of the software composer, and where they get stuck. |
| Dec 2024 | AI Product Strategy Framework | A comprehensive framework for building successful AI products. |
| Nov 2024 | The Rise of the Software Composer | How LLMs let anyone compose applications in natural language. |
- 📘 25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering (2026): a field guide to building with coding agents.
- 📕 AI Essentials for Tech Executives: O'Reilly, co-authored with Hamel Husain. Read it free.