Developer builds Yoke to enforce coding-agent verification outside the prompt

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A developer has released Yoke, an open-source TypeScript tool designed to move coding-agent verification away from prompt instructions and into a controlled runner. The tool executes work as a sequence of stories, each running in an isolated Git worktree with a fresh agent session, a verification command, a separate review step, and a commit check. A story is only marked as passed when these external conditions are met, not when the agent self-reports completion. Yoke supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI, maintaining a single project methodology across all three. The MIT-licensed tool requires no account and is available via npm.

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