theplatformlogBuilding tools for platform engineering. AI plugins for Backstage, build-first, blog the journey.https://theplatformlog.dev/en-usGenerating Backstage scaffolder templates from one sentencehttps://theplatformlog.dev/template-authoring/https://theplatformlog.dev/template-authoring/Building template-authoring-backend — zod-constrained LLM output, semantic post-validation, and the future ActionsRegistry hook.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstageaillmscaffolderclaudetypescriptstructured-outputBackstage as an LLM agent: a 5-cap tool-calling loop with propose-only toolshttps://theplatformlog.dev/agent-loop/https://theplatformlog.dev/agent-loop/Building the AgentLoop for incident-copilot-backend — what earns the 'agent' framing, and the five stop conditions that keep it cheap.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstageaillmagentsclaudetypescriptmcpBuilding AI plugins for Backstage: a four-part roadmaphttps://theplatformlog.dev/ai-plugin-roadmap/https://theplatformlog.dev/ai-plugin-roadmap/Where the work fits — the RFCs, the BEP, the plugins shipped, and the ones still ahead.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstageaimcproadmaprfcbepCatalog-aware LLM Q&A for Backstage (grounded, with citations)https://theplatformlog.dev/catalog-assistant/https://theplatformlog.dev/catalog-assistant/Building catalog-assistant-backend — natural-language questions over your Software Catalog, deliberately wired for the AI Provider Service when it lands.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstageaillmclaudesoftware-catalogtypescriptTwo open scaffolder bugs, fixed — and what I read on the way therehttps://theplatformlog.dev/scaffolder-fixes/https://theplatformlog.dev/scaffolder-fixes/A field report from contributing to backstage/backstage: PRs #34480 and #34481, plus the latent bugs and CI surprises I bumped into.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstageopen-sourcescaffoldertypescriptgitlabBackstage as an MCP client: calling any AI tool from a scaffolder templatehttps://theplatformlog.dev/mcp-scaffolder-client/https://theplatformlog.dev/mcp-scaffolder-client/Building scaffolder-backend-module-mcp — the inverse of mcp-actions-backend. One generic action, any MCP server.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbackstagemcpmodel-context-protocolscaffolderaitypescript