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From the Nano team

Notes on durable agent orchestration, the engine, and the framework.

August 19, 2026

The bottleneck moved from code to coordination

Reliable agents, codebases architected for safety, and real CI made writing code cheap. The friction didn’t vanish — it moved to coordination: dependency graphs, review cycles, wait states. That’s process engineering.

August 19, 2026

We love Effect so much we shipped 100 lines of it

Effect v4 is a great way to make a process robust. Nano makes the workflow robust. Here’s why Urban ships a ~100-line distillation of Effect instead of the dependency — and how the two compose.