5 lessons
Course
Work with a coding assistant
Five free lessons: how to brief an assistant, where to keep your rules, and how to review what it changed.
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Guide
Briefing a coding assistant: the first message
What to put in the first message to a coding assistant.
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Guide
Moving your rules into a config file
Move the rules you repeat every session into a file the tool reads.
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Config
CLAUDE.md for a PHP project
A worked CLAUDE.md for a real project.
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Config
.cursorrules for a React and TypeScript project
Project rules for Cursor that travel with the repository.
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System instruction
Senior engineer who reads before changing
An instruction that keeps an assistant from changing what you did not ask about.