simonwillison.netarticleQuoting Geoffrey Huntley
Simon Willison quotes Geoffrey Huntley on keeping coding agents compliant with a project's conventions. Instead of updating AGENTS.md, which drifts, he adds a pre-commit hook that scans the git diff for direct calls to observability modules that bypass his diagnostics library. The hook fails the commit and injects a prompt telling the agent to use the library, which he says took compliance to ten out of ten.
TL;DR Huntley enforces coding-agent conventions with a pre-commit hook that fails the commit and injects a corrective prompt, rather than relying on AGENTS.md.
Organisations named here
- Geoffrey Huntley
- Simon Willison
Technologies named here
- AGENTS.md
- Pre-commit hook
- Diagnostics library
- Git
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