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Our projects solve practical problems for teams that already build software with coding agents.

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Gopnik

Your coding agent says it works. Gopnik tries to prove it doesn't.

An adversarial verification skill that attacks the claim that a change is done, checks the delivered revision, and reports what was and was not proven.

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