Modern Web Guidance feeds modern web practices to coding agents
What happened
Modern Web Guidance, on the Hacker News front page on November 11, plugs modern web practices and browser compatibility data into coding agents' model context through skills and a CLI tool. It aims to move agents off roughly 2019-era JavaScript patterns toward native web capabilities. The project covers 250 modern web features and 203 development use cases, with local semantic search, guide lookup and old-pattern scanning. Lookup for experimental and unstable APIs needs the developer's explicit consent. A follow-up on November 12 said Chrome shipped a 1.0 stable release with a codebase modernization workflow, more expert-reviewed guidance and a public evaluation hub. Firefox and Edge will also support and contribute. The modernization workflow currently checks a limited pattern set via static analysis.
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- Hacker News front pagePickChrome ships Modern Web Guidance 1.0 with a codebase modernization workflow
Chrome released the stable version of Modern Web Guidance 1.0, giving coding agents web best practices, browser compatibility data and a codebase modernization workflow. The release adds expert-reviewed guidance and a public evaluation hub, and Firefox and Edge will take part and contribute. The modernization workflow currently checks a limited set of patterns through static analysis.
- Hacker News front pagePickModern Web Guidance feeds coding agents modern web APIs instead of 2019-era JavaScript patterns
Modern Web Guidance is a skill and CLI tool that puts modern web practices and browser compatibility data into a coding agent's context. It covers 250 modern web features and 203 real development use cases, with local semantic search, guide lookup and scans for old patterns. Looking up guides for experimental or unstable APIs requires the developer's explicit consent.
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