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Practical guides for developers working with AI coding agents. Understand Spec-Driven Development, optimize your workflow, and make any repository agent-ready.
Featured Articles
12 articlesWhat is Spec-Driven Development?
Learn how Spec-Driven Development (SDD) transforms AI coding by providing explicit system context, boundaries, and rules before any code generation.
Read articleAI Coding Agents Guide: How They Work and When to Use Them
A comprehensive guide to AI coding agents like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude. Understand capabilities, limitations, and best practices.
Read articleHow to Use RepoFence: Complete Setup Guide
Step-by-step guide to installing RepoFence, reverse-engineering your codebase, and maintaining a living spec layer for AI agents.
Read articleFundamentals
Core concepts for AI-assisted development
What is Spec-Driven Development?
Learn how Spec-Driven Development (SDD) transforms AI coding by providing explicit system context, boundaries, and rules before any code generation.
AI Coding Agents Guide: How They Work and When to Use Them
A comprehensive guide to AI coding agents like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude. Understand capabilities, limitations, and best practices.
LLM Context Window Optimization for Code Generation
Strategies to maximize the effectiveness of limited context windows when working with large language models on real codebases.
Guides
Step-by-step tutorials and workflows
Reverse Engineering Your Codebase for AI Agents
How to document and structure existing codebases so AI agents can understand architecture, patterns, and constraints without guessing.
Cursor AI Best Practices for Production Codebases
Practical tips for using Cursor AI effectively in real-world projects. Learn rules, project context, and workflow optimizations.
The AI Workflow for Developers: From Spec to Ship
A structured workflow for integrating AI coding assistants into your development process without sacrificing code quality.
Setting Up AI Agents for Brownfield Repositories
How to prepare existing, complex codebases for AI-assisted development. Handle legacy code, implicit rules, and undocumented patterns.
Problems
Common challenges and solutions
How to Improve AI Coding Accuracy in Your Projects
Practical techniques to reduce AI hallucinations, wrong assumptions, and code that breaks existing patterns in your codebase.
The Context Problem in AI Code Generation
Why AI coding tools struggle with real codebases and how explicit context solves the fundamental problem of wrong assumptions.
RepoFence
Product documentation and updates
RepoFence vs Manual AI Setup: Why Automation Wins
Compare manual context documentation with automated spec generation. See how RepoFence saves time and improves consistency.
How to Use RepoFence: Complete Setup Guide
Step-by-step guide to installing RepoFence, reverse-engineering your codebase, and maintaining a living spec layer for AI agents.
RepoFence Changelog
Track all RepoFence updates, new features, and improvements. Stay current with the latest CLI capabilities.
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