# My agent writes the code now. I built an IDE for the part that's left: reading it.

> Source: <https://dev.to/urion/my-agent-writes-the-code-now-i-built-an-ide-for-the-part-thats-left-reading-it-1k03>
> Published: 2026-10-07 23:06:53+00:00

A year ago most of my day was typing code. Today Claude Code types most of it, and my day is something else: reading what it wrote and deciding whether it stays.

The tools didn't follow. Every editor I use is built around the cursor and the keyboard. And the way I talked to the agent about its code was worse: I'd spot something on line 212, switch to the terminal and type "in auth.ts, around the token refresh, the retry doesn't…", describing a location in prose to a machine that could have just been pointed at it.

So I built [Reado](https://github.com/WatermelonBros/reado): a desktop IDE where the main thing you do is read, and the main action is leaving a comment on the exact lines that matter. Your agent resolves the comments. I call it **inverted code review: you are the reviewer, the AI is the committer.**

**Comments have to survive edits.** When the agent rewrites a function, a comment pinned to "line 212" is now lying. Reado re-anchors comments when the code moves, and one whose code is gone becomes an orphan instead of pointing at the wrong line. Comments are plain Markdown in a `.reado/` folder in your repo.

**Give the agent a contract, not a prompt.** A small `reado` binary serves an MCP server and a CLI, so the agent reads the tasks and marks them done itself (`reado task done <id>`). The UI just watches the files.

**Let the agent propose, never decide.** In a guided review the agent plans a route through a branch, riskiest files first, and its findings land on the line as proposals. Nothing is final until I approve it. That one rule is what made me trust it on real work.

Reado is MIT, local-first, and runs on macOS, Linux and Windows. No account needed for the core loop: [download it here](https://github.com/WatermelonBros/reado/releases/latest).

I'm looking for **50 developers who already work with a coding agent** to use it on real code and tell me what breaks. The first 50 who send feedback get **Reado Pro free for 12 months**: [reado.watermelon-studio.it/beta](https://reado.watermelon-studio.it/beta).

I'm the developer, so I'll answer every comment here.