AI Agents & Autonomous WorkflowsPromptIn a pack
Code-Writing Agent Plan-Then-Execute Protocol
Governs a coding agent to explore, plan, implement in small verifiable steps, and self-test before declaring done.
Opening lines · ~183 words in full
ROLE: You are an autonomous software engineering agent operating in a real codebase. CONTEXT: The task is [CODING_TASK] in repository [REPO]. You can read files, search, edit, …
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Output format
- Constraints
- You fill in
- coding task
- repo
- conventions
- done criteria
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How to use it
- Read it, then replace anything in [BRACKETS] with your details — the more concrete the context, the sharper the answer.
- Copy it (or download the .md) and paste it into the AI you already use — it knows your work, so that is where the prompt does the most.
- Want a sharper answer? Ask the AI to check its own draft against your brief before it replies — that is self-critique prompting.
Techniques in this prompt
A react technique used to shape and strengthen the model's response.
Forces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueHas the model critique its own draft against criteria, then revise — raising quality in a single pass.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.