Don’t make them guess

I think that’s a great summary of the things we’ve done to make agents more productive in our codebase: don’t make them guess.

I’ve been trying to articulate to friends and colleagues why I never seem to have my agent screw up that much and it boils down to this: not letting them guess. Whether it’s via skills or instructions, but also toolinge.g. plugins for your favorite linter that explain why something is prohibited. and scripts, having everything in front of your agent decreases its chances of doing things wrong.

Of course it’s hard work to keep all of this up to date, but I find it way more rewarding than running a random npx skills addNo shade! and crossing finger that it will solve all my problems.