The Problem
Coding agents are only as good as the context you give them.
The better your prompt, the better the output. Most advice focuses on prompt engineering — clearer instructions, better few-shot examples, smarter questions. That all helps.
But no matter how good your prompt is, there's a ceiling — because the repository itself is missing the context the agent needs.
When a human joins a new project, they get a briefing: product intent, architecture decisions, what "done" looks like, team conventions, what not to touch, who to ask when stuck. They might get a doc, a walkthrough, a Slack thread from six months ago — but they get something.
