Roughdraft: Markdown reviews for coding agents

Goal

Not set.

Capture notes

• X post by Nathan Baschez (@nbaschez), post ID 2057139892883464243: introducing Roughdraft, an open-source local-first project to bring commenting and suggested changes to Markdown plan docs for coding-agent collaboration.
• Website: https://www.roughdraft.md — “Markdown reviews for coding agents”; description: local-first Markdown review app for commenting, suggesting edits, and collaborating with your coding agent.
• Original post: https://x.com/nbaschez/status/2057139892883464243
• Metrics at capture: 418 likes, 543 bookmarks, 87,577 impressions.
• Follow-up planning artifact created: goal-sliced MVP parity plan for building a Roughdraft-like HTML review product with Claude Code /goal iterations and end-to-end test gates.

Explore

Intent: Study Roughdraft’s local-first Markdown review repo and extract implementation patterns for human↔coding-agent collaboration.

Next action: Use the MVP goal plan to start Goal 0: spec + fixtures for a Roughdraft-style HTML review sibling, then iterate only after Dab verification gates pass.

Outcome

Marked done by Ananth via WhatsApp cleanup batch.

Legacy artifacts

• link Roughdraft website
• x-post Nathan Baschez introducing Roughdraft
• project-page Roughdraft repo overview and implementation visualization
• github-repo Lex-Inc/roughdraft
• project-page Roughdraft-for-HTML MVP parity goal plan
• decision Marked done via WhatsApp cleanup batch