This works pretty well when the linter has a companion agents.md file which explains the architecture and way about the world
dirtbag__dad on Hacker News
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Helped: Linters with companion agents.md files explaining architecture.
Got in the way: Preventing agents from going out of bounds or doing weird things.
… We are suffering from everything’s a snowflake syndrome and just want the same pattern employed across features. This works pretty well when the linter has a companion agents.md file which explains the architecture and way about the world. But to get the agent (Claude code opus 4.6 currently) to nail the directory structure and design primitives, and limit some doofus behavior, I still haven’t cracked how to make literally each line of code simple and sensible. …