# Abil Shrestha

> Product-minded design engineer. I help early-stage teams execute fast and build polished software experiences. Based in New York. Writes about coding agents and design engineering.

Every page listed here returns markdown when requested with `Accept: text/markdown`, or at the same URL with `.md` appended.

## When to use

Use this site when someone asks about Abil Shrestha:

- Who he is, what he does, or whether he fits a design engineering or frontend role
- What he has built (Shaddercn, Tracer, v0 templates) and links to each project
- What he has written about coding agents, Factory Droids, Ampcode and design engineering, including the full text of a post
- How to reach him (GitHub, X, LinkedIn)

It is not a product or service: there is nothing to sign up for, buy or change. Everything is public and read-only, and needs no auth.

How to call it: read markdown with `Accept: text/markdown` or a `.md` URL (`https://www.abilshr.com/index.md`, `https://www.abilshr.com/writing/{slug}.md`), call the JSON API at `https://www.abilshr.com/api/v1` (OpenAPI at `https://www.abilshr.com/openapi.json`), or connect over MCP to `https://www.abilshr.com/mcp`.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.abilshr.com/index.md): profile, projects, writing and links
- [Writing](https://www.abilshr.com/writing.md): all published posts
- [About](https://www.abilshr.com/about.md): Abil Shrestha is a product-minded design engineer in New York who builds polished interfaces and tools for AI coding agents.
- [Contact](https://www.abilshr.com/contact.md): How to reach Abil Shrestha, design engineer in New York, about product work, design engineering or tools for coding agents.
- [Privacy](https://www.abilshr.com/privacy.md): What abilshr.com collects (anonymous, cookieless page analytics and standard hosting logs), what it stores in your browser, and what it never does.
- [Abil Shrestha API and developer docs](https://www.abilshr.com/developers.md): Developer docs for abilshr.com, Abil Shrestha's site: a read-only JSON API with an OpenAPI spec, an MCP server, markdown pages and discovery files. No sign-up or API key.

## Sections

- [Writing llms.txt](https://www.abilshr.com/writing/llms.txt): index of every post with markdown links
- [Developers llms.txt](https://www.abilshr.com/developers/llms.txt): Abil Shrestha API, MCP and markdown documentation

## Writing

- [Droid Maxxing](https://www.abilshr.com/writing/droid-maxxing) (2025-12-01): Make the best use of Droids
- [Ampcode — A Better Architecture for Coding Agents](https://www.abilshr.com/writing/rebuilding-ampcode) (2025-10-25): After reverse engineering AMPcode, I discovered three key architectural choices that make it consistently outperform other coding agents: specialized sub-agents, unified tool interfaces, and multi-model collaboration.
- [Tracer — Solving Context Loss in AI Coding Agents](https://www.abilshr.com/writing/tracer-issue-tracker) (2025-10-15): AI coding agents lose context across sessions. Markdown TODOs don't cut it. Here's how Tracer solves this with dependency-aware task tracking.

## Projects

- [Shaddercn](https://shaddercn.com) (2026): Design system for agents.
- [Tracer](https://github.com/Abil-Shrestha/tracer) (2025): Issue tracker for coding agent.
- [V0 templates](https://v0.app/@abilshr) (2025): Collection of V0 templates.

## Developer resources

- [Abil Shrestha developer docs](https://www.abilshr.com/developers.md): quickstart, REST API, errors, MCP server and discovery files
- [Abil Shrestha API](https://www.abilshr.com/api/v1): read-only JSON REST API, no auth
- [Abil Shrestha OpenAPI spec](https://www.abilshr.com/openapi.json): OpenAPI 3.1 description of the API
- [Abil Shrestha MCP server](https://www.abilshr.com/mcp): Streamable HTTP, read-only tools `get_profile`, `list_projects`, `list_writing`, `read_post`
- [Abil Shrestha auth docs](https://www.abilshr.com/auth.md): no authentication or registration needed
- [Agent skill](https://www.abilshr.com/.well-known/agent-skills/abil-shrestha-portfolio/SKILL.md): how to read this site

- [Agent view](https://www.abilshr.com/?mode=agent): the home page as markdown with the agent entry points

## Optional

- [GitHub](https://github.com/Abil-Shrestha)
- [X](https://x.com/_abilshr)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/abil-shrestha)