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Your first agent session

A five-step outline for a session that ends with a change you'd actually merge.

Updated Oct 19, 20261 min read

A good agent session has a shape. Skip a step and you'll usually pay for it in review.

The five steps

  1. Load context. The agent reads your context file automatically. Check that it did by asking what commands it would run.
  2. Map. Ask for a map of the modules, connections and blind spots involved. No edits yet.
  3. Answer questions. Every blind spot on the map is a question. Answer it before you let the agent guess.
  4. Change in small steps. One connection per step. Commit between steps.
  5. Verify. Run the verification loop before you call it done.

A starter prompt

Task: [one sentence]
Before editing, map the modules and connections this touches, and list anything
you can't see both sides of. Then stop.

Signs it's going well

  • The agent asks one specific question instead of eight vague ones.
  • Diffs are small enough to read in a minute.
  • "Done" comes with test output, not just a summary.