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Lauren Tan describes pstack's engineering principles for steering coding agents

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Lauren Tan says pstack's engineering principles are among its most durable parts, each a concise skill of about 10-20 lines that distills good engineering practices.

Many came from her sessions correcting agents this year, and she expects many to compress into shorter principles or workflows as models improve.

Tan says her /poteto-mode index tells agents to "name each principle that shaped a decision and the specific choice it changed," which is why responses often end with a Principles Named or Used section. Each principle can also be invoked directly as a skill via /principle-<name> for more control.

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    AILauren Tan says pstack's engineering principles are among its most durable parts, each a concise skill of about 10-20 lines, and expects many to compress into short principles or workflows as models improve. Her /poteto-mode index asks agents to name each principle that shaped a decision, which is why responses often end with a Principles Named or Used section. Many principles came from her sessions correcting agents this year, and each can also be invoked as a skill via /principle-<name>.

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