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The AI Builder’s Playbook
Seven short plays for planning, building and verifying changes with AI coding tools. Each one comes with a template you can paste into your next session.
7 plays8 templates20 min read
01 What’s inside
Seven plays, one loop
- 01
Map before you build
Make the agent chart entry points, bridges and blind spots before it edits a line.
Preview on the blog → - 02
A context file that steers
The 60-line file that sets the stack, rules and red lines for every session.
In the playbook - 03
Goal, context, constraints
The three-block prompt shape that removes guesswork and cuts tokens.
In the playbook - 04
Buy the question
Build in a checkpoint where the agent asks instead of assumes.
In the playbook - 05
One bridge at a time
Small diffs that touch one connection, so review is easy and rollback is free.
In the playbook - 06
The verification loop
Tests, a real browser, and a self-review prompt before anything is “done”.
In the playbook - 07
Give it a memory
A decisions log the agent reads and writes, so context survives between sessions.
In the playbook - →
The loop on one page
All seven plays as a single checklist you can keep open while you work.
“I kept relearning the same lessons the hard way. These are the habits that made AI agents a reliable part of how I build.”Robert Hemingway