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Building tools for platform engineering. Today that's mostly AI plugins for Backstage. Build-first, blog the journey.

• Generating Backstage scaffolder templates from one sentence

  Building template-authoring-backend — zod-constrained LLM output, semantic post-validation, and the future ActionsRegistry hook.

  Jun 4, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 5

• Backstage as an LLM agent: a 5-cap tool-calling loop with propose-only tools

  Building the AgentLoop for incident-copilot-backend — what earns the 'agent' framing, and the five stop conditions that keep it cheap.

  Jun 4, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 6

• Building AI plugins for Backstage: a four-part roadmap

  Where the work fits — the RFCs, the BEP, the plugins shipped, and the ones still ahead.

  Jun 3, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 4

• Catalog-aware LLM Q&A for Backstage (grounded, with citations)

  Building catalog-assistant-backend — natural-language questions over your Software Catalog, deliberately wired for the AI Provider Service when it lands.

  Jun 3, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 3

• Two open scaffolder bugs, fixed — and what I read on the way there

  A field report from contributing to backstage/backstage: PRs #34480 and #34481, plus the latent bugs and CI surprises I bumped into.

  Jun 3, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 1

• Backstage as an MCP client: calling any AI tool from a scaffolder template

  Building scaffolder-backend-module-mcp — the inverse of mcp-actions-backend. One generic action, any MCP server.

  Jun 3, 2026 · Backstage AI plugins, part 2