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5 postsAI Coding
This is where I write about working with AI coding assistants every day: the prompts I use, the rules files and memory that keep an assistant on track, and MCP servers, skills and sub-agents. Every post links the official docs it relies on and says when they were checked; where I tested something myself, the post says which tool and version.
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Deep dive9 min
Not every repeated prompt deserves an agent skill
How to tell which repeated coding agent work deserves a skill, what a good SKILL.md holds, and how to keep it from going stale, with two prompts to copy.
Deep dive11 min
"Looks good" isn't evidence: how to verify AI-generated code
AI-generated code is not done when it compiles. Check the requirement, the diff, tests and static checks, and get a review from outside the model that wrote it.
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Skills vs agents vs MCP: don't build an AI maintenance job
Skills, sub-agents, MCP and hooks solve different problems. When to use each in a coding agent, where six agents keep them, and when to add nothing.
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Don't let your coding agent code first: plan, then approve
A coding agent workflow with a stop before any code: investigate, plan, approve, implement and verify, plus the plan modes of seven agents.
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Beyond AGENTS.md: the six layers of a coding agent project
How to structure an AI coding agent project beyond one instructions file: rules, skills, sub-agents, MCP, project docs and checks, plus three prompts.