How to Add Coding Runtimes to an AI Agent Web Service#

2026-04-19

When you start designing or building an AI agent web service, one question shows up surprisingly early:

“If these agents are supposed to do real work, where does their coding ability actually come from?”

At first, it is tempting to think the answer is straightforward. Call a strong model API, add file editing, let it run shell commands, execute tests, and package the results. But once you look more closely, the problem expands fast.