Practices & Implementation Guides
Practices are execution standards and concrete recipes for implementation. If patterns are the factory blueprints, practices are the operating procedures — step-by-step guides, operational workflows, and code-level specifications that turn architectural intent into working systems.
Start Here
Three foundational practices that define how agents operate.
AGENTS.md Specification
LiveComplete AGENTS.md specification with templates, section-by-section format guide, and research-backed rules for writing minimal, high-signal context files.
Living Specs
LivePractical guide to writing, maintaining, and evolving feature specs for agentic development. Covers spec creation, the refinement cycle, maintenance protocols, and common failure modes.
PBI Authoring
LiveHow to write Product Backlog Items that agents can read, execute, and verify—with templates and lifecycle guidance.
Live Practices
- ADR Authoring Step-by-step guide for creating, organizing, and maintaining Architecture Decision Records in your codebase.
- Adversarial Code Review Executing automated verification using a Critic Agent to validate implementation artifacts against Spec contracts.
- Agent Personas How to define session-scoped agent personas as skill files — not bloated AGENTS.md sections. Includes ready-to-use samples for key personas.
- Micro-Commits Ultra-granular commit practice for agentic workflows, treating version control as reversible save points.
Experimental & Draft
- Adversarial Requirement Review A verification practice where a Critic Agent challenges the problem statement and assumptions before any specification or code is written.
- Constitutional Review Implementation Step-by-step guide for implementing Constitutional Review to validate code against both Spec and Constitution contracts.
- Context Mapping The practice of creating high-density Context Maps to guide agents through codebases and documentation.
- Context Offloading The practice of moving agent trajectories, tool results, and historical state from the context window to the filesystem to prevent cognitive overload and context rot.
- Feature Assembly The implementation phase where PBIs are executed against Specs, validated through quality gates, and integrated into the codebase.
- Product Vision Authoring How to create and maintain a Product Vision document that transmits taste to agents—inline in AGENTS.md or as a separate file.
- Workflow as Code Define agentic workflows in deterministic code rather than prompts to ensure reliability, type safety, and testable orchestration.
Next Steps
- Patterns — The architectural blueprints these practices implement.
- Getting Started — Deploy the methodology from scratch.
- Resources — Field manual, design system, and governance.