Building autonomous AI agents with Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView — a development blog
Building an AI-powered party game platform where you create custom agents with unique personalities and power-ups, then watch them interact in unpredictable, entertaining conversations.
This blog documents the journey — architecture decisions, implementation slices, debugging war stories, and what we learn along the way. Built with Elixir, Phoenix, and a team of AI coding agents.
The Setup Guide tells users exactly what to do, step by step, from API key to board mapping.
Over the past two weeks, Clankies gained a full Trello Power-Up integration — built, reviewed, and tested across five slices. The backend handled OAuth, webhooks, and board …
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The Trello Power-Up integration shipped in Slices 03 and 04 with a solid backend and a working configuration wizard. Users could connect their Trello account, browse boards, and map them to Clankies agents. It worked. But it didn’t feel finished.
This slice is …
Read more →Some slices are about building new things. This one was about fixing what broke and laying the foundation for what’s next.
On May 28, Clankies had a bug slam — four issues reported and fixed in a single afternoon session. The avatar editor wiped form fields, the …
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From here, users navigate to Settings → Integrations → Trello to configure the integration.
The Trello Power-Up integration was designed on paper in ADR-004 — a three-layer architecture with OAuth, webhooks, and a Power-Up behaviour module. The backend was built. The …
Read more →After Slice 01 shipped with local-only email (the dev mailbox at /dev/mailbox), we had a problem: magic link authentication worked great in development but was completely broken in production. No emails were going out, so nobody could actually log in.
This post covers …
Read more →Clankies grew up this week. What started as a functional but nameless prototype — running under the old “MiniOns” codebase — now has its own identity, a production-grade deployment pipeline, and the architectural foundation for its first major integration. …
Read more →Slice 01 was the first vertical slice of Clankies — an end-to-end working system where a user can create an AI agent, give it a Calculator power-up, and chat with it through DeepSeek. Everything from the Phoenix scaffold, through magic-link auth, to a streaming agent …
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