Agentic Software Engineering (ASE)

Dr. Ralf S. Engelschall's in a studio interview about his latest Open Source software project Agentic Software Engineering (ASE, https://ase.tools), an opinionated companion toolkit for fusing the concept of Agentic AI Coding and traditional Software Engineering in the software development tool Anthropic Claude Code CLI — and with reduced support also in the alternative tools GitHub Copilot CLI and OpenAI Codex CLI. It ships as a plugin for the tool and provides agent hooks, agent skills, an underlying Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) service and a Command-Line Interface (CLI). ASE incorporates reasonable methodology and automation aspects to support the daily, recurring tasks of a Software Developer and Software Architect. The comprehensive functionality spans from brainstorming ideas, searching the Web, asking foreign LLMs, discovering components, through evaluating alternatives, challenging statements, analyzing root-causes, managing tasks, grilling task plans, all the way to analyzing, fixing, refactoring, and crafting code, reviewing changesets, and many more. Find ASE under: https://ase.tools