YC Spring 2026 (P26) company

Ara

The Autonomous software engineer

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About Ara

Ara (YC P26) is the self-driving engineer for software teams. It watches work in progress, suggests the next step, and executes tasks through non-invasive computer use, background agents, memory, and reusable skills. Ara turns coding into a closed loop: suggest, act, learn, improve.

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    Adi Singh introduces Ara cloud coding agent

    Excited to introduce Ara, The cloud coding agent Bring your codex subscription and code with your teammate that uses claude code, together in web. Try it with a 100$ on us. Now generally available for the top coders

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    Ara launched in Slack

    Ara launched in Slack

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    introducing Autosuggest imagine an IDE that surfaces the next useful thing to build before you ask hover to preview the task, inspect the plan, then start the run when it feels right for anyone who wants the product loop to move faster follow the changelog and more here

    introducing Autosuggest imagine an IDE that surfaces the next useful thing to build before you ask hover to preview the task, inspect the plan, then start the run when it feels right for anyone who wants the product loop to move faster follow the changelog and more here

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    Introducing Searchable Skills and Plugins in Ara, powered by https://t.co/duhFcYCm8r from @vercel Ara skills have over 500,000 downloads on the platform! Try it yourself today in Ara for free. The future of ai coding with skills.

    Introducing Searchable Skills and Plugins in Ara, powered by https://t.co/duhFcYCm8r from @vercel Ara skills have over 500,000 downloads on the platform! Try it yourself today in Ara for free. The future of ai coding with skills.

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    Automations in Ara

    Automations in Ara

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    GitHub signal from Aradotso/trending-skills

    Aradotso/trending-skills: Trending Claude Code skills.

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    Visual code diffs in Ara

    Visual code diffs in Ara

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    Ara is now powered by Hermes from @NousResearch a harness that we strongly believe will power a lot of great things incoming. Session search and memory were two core reasons for this. more on that soon 0:13 / 0:28

    Ara is now powered by Hermes from @NousResearch a harness that we strongly believe will power a lot of great things incoming. Session search and memory were two core reasons for this. more on that soon 0:13 / 0:28