Google's NEW EGM Skill Set + Deepseek is ACTUALLY INSANE!

Key moments

The parts the AI thinks are worth your time, chosen from the creator's chapters. Click to jump.

1. 1:33The idea Elephants and GoldfishExplains the design-first workflow and why it may improve AI coding output.
2. 2:41Install and the brainstorm workflowShows the hands-on setup and the first steps you could apply in your own projects.
3. 4:09Review, resolve and the no-flattery ruleCovers the critique loop that helps agents catch bad plans before coding.
4. 5:42Bootstrap, drift report and the token costUseful for judging whether the workflow is efficient enough for real solo dev use.

Chapters

From the creator's chapter list. Click to jump.

1. 0:00Google's EGM plugin
2. 0:43Google, but for Claude Code and Codex
3. 1:33The idea Elephants and Goldfish
4. 2:41Install and the brainstorm workflow
5. 4:09Review, resolve and the no-flattery rule
6. 5:42Bootstrap, drift report and the token cost
7. 6:44ClinePass $9.99 a month and mixing models
8. 8:27Running EGM in Cline and PandaCode
9. 10:01Verdict the process matters more than the harness

About this video

Cline Desktop: https://cline.gg/desktop-aick ClinePass: https://cline.gg/clinepass-aick EGM on GitHub: https://github.com/google/elephant-goldfish-model PandaCode: https://github.com/aicodeking/pandacode In this video, I'll be taking a look at the Elephant-Goldfish Model, or EGM, an open-source plugin from Google that makes your coding agent design a feature properly before it writes any code, and that installs into Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity. I'll explain the idea behind it, where a full-context Elephant agent writes the design doc and fresh, zero-context Goldfish subagents review it