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Meronq Closes Sprint 7 with Five Specialized Engineering Agents

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Meronq has completed Sprint 7, delivering five built-in engineering agents covering architecture, code review, documentation, debugging, and onboarding. The agents are built on a foundation of skills, memory, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), and operate by gathering evidence and returning structured briefings without calling external LLMs. A dedicated package handles agent types, registry, context gathering, and a runner, while MCP and CLI support enables commands such as listing and running agents with specific parameters. The release ships as Product MCP v1.2.0 and Local MCP v1.18.0, with agent_run currently restricted to read-only mode in version zero. Future development will explore a desktop app, cloud backend, team workspace, authentication, and billing.

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