idioms

A running collection of hard-fought lessons about working with coding agents, in the words of the people who learned them — collated into one markdown document you can hand straight to an LLM.

"My agent instructions slowly becoming a collection of the hard-fought lessons learned by folks I've never actually met, expressed in their particular idioms." — @nainrouge420.bsky.social, the post this site is built from

the collection

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Copy this straight into a system prompt, a CLAUDE.md, or wherever your agent reads its instructions from.

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Add your own. Reply to (or quote) a post with the idiom in it, tag @buildthis.bisks.net, and ask it to add the idiom to this collection. The bot reads the thread for context and appends a new entry to idioms.json — same as everything else it builds.