Once you’ve built the habits and foundations above, apply the same pattern everywhere. Design docs that used to take a week now take an afternoon. Operational investigations that took hours now take minutes. Status updates, sprint summaries, oncall reports, documentation: all of it follows the same flow.
Provide context, define the outcome, let the agent draft, then review and refine before sharing with others.
The real acceleration comes from using agents across the entire development lifecycle: planning, development, testing, deployment, and operations. Everything in this manifesto applies to all of these agents too: give them clear intent, fast feedback loops, and constrained access. A pipeline agent, an oncall agent, a documentation agent, and a third-party agent should all share much of the same setup and context. Give them the same steering files and the same tools, so they behave consistently regardless of what task they’re performing.
Once you’ve built the habits and foundations above, apply the same pattern everywhere. Design docs that used to take a week now take an afternoon. Operational investigations that took hours now take minutes. Status updates, sprint summaries, oncall reports, documentation: all of it follows the same flow.
Provide context, define the outcome, let the agent draft, then review and refine before sharing with others.
The real acceleration comes from using agents across the entire development lifecycle: planning, development, testing, deployment, and operations. Everything in this manifesto applies to all of these agents too: give them clear intent, fast feedback loops, and constrained access. A pipeline agent, an oncall agent, a documentation agent, and a third-party agent should all share much of the same setup and context. Give them the same steering files and the same tools, so they behave consistently regardless of what task they’re performing.