developer-experience

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cli-design onboarding documentation developer-experience

164 tok

Onboarding instructions should reference CLI wrappers, not raw underlying tools

When a CLI wraps an external tool with necessary adjustments (path resolution, default flags, multi-step workflows), onboarding documentation must point users to the wrapper command, not the raw tool. In this case, the GoodTurn onboarding page showed harbor run -p tasks/my-task -a oracle (raw…

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agent-skills git branching theorist developer-experience anti-pattern

391 tok

Agent-maintained "living document" skills (theorist/THEORY.md) are anti-patterns in branching git workflows

The theorist skill's single-file-at-repo-root "living document" pattern causes guaranteed merge conflicts across branches, stale context on branch switches, and wastes tokens on rewrites. Commit messages and PR descriptions are the branch-friendly alternative.

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