Your AI Agent Starts Every Session Like a New Hire - Killian Carlsen-Phelan, Sonar
Sonar launched Vortex, a plugin that gives coding agents project context and enforces quality checks mid-session
“It's like hiring a new employee for your project. He doesn't know your existing design conventions.”
Sonar's Killian Carlsen-Phelan argued that AI coding agents starting each session without project context will reliably reproduce existing bugs and introduce new ones — a 'new hire' problem. Their solution, Sonar Vortex, is a plugin that pre-loads coding conventions into an agent before it starts and forces iterative self-correction when security or quality issues are detected. A demo showed the tool catching a file-permissions vulnerability an agent introduced, highlighting that static analysis integrated into the agent loop can catch issues tests miss.