Very easy, just like the title says:
What are the best practices for letting coding agents start and manage Julia sessions for testing and debugging, while keeping the workflow safe, reproducible, and easy to reason about?
I think many people could find this useful, so maybe we can share our experiences, tips, and tricks in the comments below.
Julia depends very heavily on the REPL, so you want your agent to have access to a REPL.
For me, that means spinning up a REPL in a separate tmux/zellij session. Then the agents can just use send-keys to access the REPL and get fast feedback.
I currently use the Claude Code plugin (in a non edit mode) in Codium. I’m at the experimental stage so for now it’s more of a “how can I optimized this code”, “can you find bugs in this file” type use.
I have also experimented with a purely local setup using OpenCode linked to Qwen 3.6 or GPT-OSS but have found the models inferior.
My use is rather simple, so I’m also interested in what others are doing.