Tell it what git commands to explicitly run and in what order for your desired outcome instead of “commit everything in the worktree”
This prompt will work better across any/all models.
This prompt will work better across any/all models.
Why don't run the commands yourself then?
After commands or changes are made outside of the agents doing; the agent would notice its world view changed and eventually recover, but that fills up precious context for it to bring itself up to date.
It’s often because the context is full, I gave a bad prompt or context has conflicting guidance either from direct or indirect (agents.md) prompts.
I spend 8-20 hours a day coding nonstop with agentic models and you can believe I have tuned my approach quite a lot. This isn't a case of inexperience or conflicting instructions, The RL which gives Opus its fantastic ability to just knock out features is the same RL which causes it to constantly accumulate tech debt through short-sighted decisions.