AI coding

Writing and maintaining project context files

• How to Write a Project Context File for AI Coding Agents
• Auditing an Inherited Repo's Context Files
• Reading a Context File Aloud to a Cheap Model
• Teaching an Agent Your Codebase Conventions
• A Contradiction Checklist a Model Can Apply
• A Lean Context File: Which Facts an Agent Needs Every Time
• Costing a Context File Review
• Extracting Naming Rules from Commit History with a Script
• Fifteen Minutes a Month: A Context File Hygiene Habit
• Monorepo Context File: One Root or One Per Package
• Ownership and Review for Agent Instructions
• Teaching an Agent Your Diff Conventions Before It Writes
• Teaching an Agent Your Diff Conventions with a Context File
• Two Context Files at Once: Picking Which One Wins
• What to Put in an Agent's Dependency Context File