Google open-sources Elephant-Goldfish plugin for AI coding reviews
Original title: Google open-sources the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin its engineers use to catch AI coding mistakes
Stateless reviewer sessions must restate the design and hunt gaps before a go/no-go on files and signatures.
Google released the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin, which blocks an AI coding agent from writing code until a design document passes review. A long-running Elephant session interviews the developer and drafts the document; fresh Goldfish sessions with no memory of that talk must restate the plan, challenge gaps, and make a go or no-go call. Google says thousands of employees use it daily in Antigravity, with other environments planned. The GitHub release is free, and threat review is not a built-in check.
Unconfirmed: The claim of thousands of daily Google users is the company's own figure.
- egm-brainstorm bars code while the developer and Elephant debate options.
- egm-draft writes a Markdown design that names the files to change.
- Goldfish reviewers start with no memory of the design conversation.
- A final Goldfish checks paths, data structures, and function signatures.
- Personas are customizable; security review is not on the default list.
- Vendors
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Google has open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin, an internal tool that makes an AI coding agent write and defend a design document before it touches any code. The plugin hands that document to fresh AI sessions that have never seen the design conversation and tells them to find what is wrong with it.
By Anamarija Pogorelec · helpnetsecurity.com
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