A lightweight, spec-driven workflow for keeping AI coding agents focused, efficient, and reviewable as projects grow.

Since February, I’ve been refining a small workflow for coding with AI agents.

Not because I wanted more process.

Because I was tired of wasting tokens.

If you’ve used a coding agent on a real side project, you probably know the pattern. At the beginning, everything feels almost too good. The project is small. The agent can read most of it. “Plan, then build” works well enough.