11.09.2026

Google's Elephant-Goldfish Plugin Open-Sourced

Google open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model (EGM) this week, and by Sunday evening the repo sat at over 14,600 stars, up more than 6,000 in seven days (I pulled that count from the GitHub API tonight). It is a plugin for AI coding agents that makes the agent write and defend a specification before it writes code. MarkTechPost covered the release today, and the pitch compresses to one line: catch wrong assumptions in a Markdown file, not in a pull request.