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Birdview is an open-source developer tool that makes AI coding agents map a project's architecture before editing. Its Birdview workflow defines modules, responsibilities, file ownership, evidence, relationships, and layout in an architecture JSON file; an agent then declares planned task scope, targets, files, lifecycle phases, and verification records against that map in an activity JSONL stream. Validators check the schemas and cross-record rules before a renderer produces a standalone interactive HTML view with architecture, changes, comparison, module evidence, and activity-history views.
Birdview supports automatic or on-demand activation through project-level agent guidance and includes Node.js scripts, JSON Schemas, example maps, and tests. The generated output has no server or network dependency, but the v0.1 implementation is file-based: activity is agent-declared rather than automatically observed, and updates require regenerating the HTML. It is MIT-licensed and is not published to npm.
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Creates an evidence-linked architecture map and requires an AI agent to declare planned code changes against that map before editing, producing a self-contained HTML review file.
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