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Instruction systems capability ladder: harness leveling
submission for the Hermes Agent Challenge A few months ago I drew a maturity ladder for CLAUDE.md...
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Gábor Mészáros
Backend developer turned builder. 20 years in software, now building Reporails - instruction governance for coding agents. Writing about context engineering and patterns that make AI agents reliable.
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#ai#claude#agents#agentskills
The State of AI Instruction Quality
Everybody has opinions about AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md files. Best practices get shared. Templates get...
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#ai#productivity#claude#performance
The Undiagnosed Input Problem
The AI agent ecosystem has built a serious industry around controlling outputs. Guardrails. Safety...
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#ai#agents#agentskills#machinelearning
Do NOT Think of a Pink Elephant
You thought of a pink elephant, didn't you? Same goes for LLMs too. "Do not use mocks in...
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#ai#beginners#performance#agents
Instruction Best Practices: Precision Beats Clarity
Two rules in the same file. Both say "don't mock." When working with external services, avoid using...
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#agents#ai#documentation#productivity
CLAUDE.md Best Practices: 7 formatting rules for the Machine
I watched an agent ignore a rule I wrote 2 hours earlier. Not a vague rule. A specific one. "run...
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#ai#productivity#tutorial#architecture
Why /bootstrap should be the first Command in every Agent session
After a 2.5 hour session you accidentally close your coding agent terminal mid session. The output is...
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#claudecode#ai#productivity#devtools
CLAUDE.md Best Practices: Mermaid for Workflows
I picture says a thousand words. I wanted to see my system. Not the code. I wanted to see the...
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#devchallenge#githubchallenge#cli#githubcopilot
Reporails: Copilot adapter, built with copilot, for copilot.
This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built Reporails is a...
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#claudecode#ai#devtools#productivity
CLAUDE.md Best Practices: The backbone.yml Pattern
There's a Dutch scouting tradition called "dropping." Kids get driven to an unfamiliar forest at...
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#claudecode#devtools#ai#programming
CLAUDE.md best practices - From Basic to Adaptive
How do you learn new things as a developer? My take on it is to find yourself an actual...
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#claudecode#productivity#opensource#devtool
CLAUDE.md: Check, Score, Improve & Repeat
The missing quality checker for AI instruction files. You asked for a small refactor. A small(!)...
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#langgraph#langchain#python#architecture
From Prompt to Platform: Architecture Rules I Use
The "build -> surprise -> restructure -> repeat" loop is amazing early on. However, after a...
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#ai#llm#langgraph#softwareengineering
From Zero to Agentic Platform Building: The SageCompass Origin Story (series prologue)
The story of how a small prompt idea snowballed into a real agentic LangGraph runtime and I didn’t...
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