{"slug": "customizing-shelley-customizing-software", "title": "Customizing Shelley, Customizing Software", "summary": "Exe.dev's coding agent Shelley can be customized by asking it to change itself, with customizations rebased onto each new version. The company advocates editing code directly as a third way to customize software, treating the tool like a wiki.", "body_md": "If you want to customize Shelley, open up a conversation, and ask the agent to change itself. It will do so. When a new version of Shelley ships, it rebases your customizations onto the latest version, so your changes always carry forward.\n\nThe traditional approach to software customization has been configuration and plug-in architectures. With the advent of coding agents, a third way is viable: edit the code. The tool exists to serve you, so [treat it like a wiki](https://blog.exe.dev/software-as-wiki), slap an \"Edit With Shelley\" ribbon on it, and go to town.\n\nGive customizing Shelley a shot! When you've got features that can stand the test of time, [pop into our Discord](https://exe.dev/docs/getting-help), and let us know.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/customizing-shelley-customizing-software", "canonical_source": "https://blog.exe.dev/customizing-shelley", "published_at": "2026-07-21 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 16:08:15.521435+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Exe.dev", "Shelley"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/customizing-shelley-customizing-software", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/customizing-shelley-customizing-software.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/customizing-shelley-customizing-software.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/customizing-shelley-customizing-software.jsonld"}}