{"ref":"content:coding-agents-with-abap-source-codes","page":"/content/coding-agents-with-abap-source-codes","json":"/content/coding-agents-with-abap-source-codes.json","generated":"2026-11-09","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"coding-agents-with-abap-source-codes","title":"Coding Agents with ABAP source codes","url":"https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coding-agents-abap-source-codes-jakub-fil%C3%A1k-ym8gf/","content_type":"blog","published_on":"source:linkedin","author":"Jakub Filák","published":"2026-03-13","drafted_with_ai":true,"short":"The case against Git export: mirroring ABAP objects as files","summary":"Jakub Filák argues against exporting an ABAP project through [abapGit](artifact:abapgit-abapgit) or gCTS so that a coding agent can read it: Git versions code and does not serialise ABAP objects, and a modify, commit, push, pull and check loop is slower than modify, write and check. The alternative in the piece is a tool that mirrors ABAP objects as files from a running system, so the agent reads and changes only the files it needs. It names [ABAP remote filesystem](artifact:marcellourbani-vscode-abap-remote-fs), [erpl-adt](artifact:datazoode-erpl-adt), [adt-cli](https://github.com/abapify/adt-cli) and [sapcli](https://github.com/jfilak/sapcli) for this. It recommends [vibing-steampunk](artifact:oisee-vibing-steampunk) among MCP servers, with the condition that an MCP server can export and import objects as files, and it reports no measurements.","explains":[{"ref":"capability:agent-code-access","what_it_covers":"Argues for tools that mirror ABAP objects as local files from a running system, over MCP servers that return whole source into the agent’s context.","applies_to":{"ecosystems":["abap"]}}],"provenance":{"discovered_via":[{"source":"source:curator"}],"first_seen":"2026-11-01"}},"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Checked against the source","tier":"unknown","evidence":"nobody has checked it"},{"label":"Source reachable","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Age","tier":"good","evidence":"published 8 months ago"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Version","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no version declared"},{"label":"Moved since?","tier":"good","evidence":"no recorded change after 2026-03-13"},{"label":"Findings","tier":"good","evidence":"none flagged"}],"reach":[{"value":null,"unit":"views"},{"value":null,"unit":"comments"},{"value":null,"unit":"likes"}]},"signals":null,"series":null,"edges":{"authors":[]}}