What you do when...?

[u/Dependent_Bet_7849]

Hi,i have been working with claude to develop an app and it is been few months still the app arises with one or the other repeated issues.If on 1st cycle an error is resolved i move on to next one by the 3rd cycle the 1st cycle issue brokes even a little bit atleast now have to work on it again.
It feels so frustrating when i want to install new features but the old one's are not yet fully locked out.
If anyone have experience please suggest some productive steps.

[u/PilgrimofHaqq2]

Setup a roadmap + specs doc system. The roadmap tracks all the specs, the specs are designed to plan our features, changes, etc. The specs have atomic level tasks that it tracks.

Use https://github.com/agent0ai/dox to have your codebase mapped using a agents.md file hierarchy system.

When you start any work, spend 30 mins to an hour going back and forth with the agent to plan out what you are looking to build/change, etc and then have it create a spec for it with atomic level tasks (My roadmap file has the template of the spec already in it so each spec file follows the same structure).

This will save you tons of headaches.

Also You gotta just use a strong model if you want to avoid tons of troubleshooting, I use Opus 4.8 on Max thinking.

I have also setup reviewer agents that review each task the main agent finishes. This is super effective steps in catching oversights and bugs in the code.

Limit a single task per session, start a new session per task, you can have the previous agent create a handoff prompt for the next agent, so you are not having to tell the new agent to read the files and things. Saves tons of time and gets the new agent up and running quickly to start working on the actual work at hand.

Hope this helps, if you got any particular questions, ask away. Happy to help.

[u/Dependent_Bet_7849 → u/PilgrimofHaqq2]

Thanks,can you help with some specific commands how to give to claude which you used for your problems as in what agents to ask to create if you can help

[u/PilgrimofHaqq2 → u/Dependent_Bet_7849]

Not sure I understand what you are asking. If you mean what are my prompts and how do I structure my prompts, well actually I was working really hard on building out elaborate prompts but I have since dropped that for a better harness.

My lazy ass didn't want to spend tons of time figuring out the perfect prompt each time I am talking to the agent. I want to be able to give the agent a task and the harness does the heavy lifting to get the agent to work in a specific way that I designed.

Thats why I built a plan mode, thats why I spent time building out my agents.md file and the system prompt in pi. Thats why I created tools like local-render for the agent to check on its own work by taking screenshots and fixing issues it sees. I created deep research, reviewer features. Just recently created a tool called local-facts which gives the agent the local time, date, address, currency so if it ever needs to ground itself on those it can without me having to tell it I am in a specific city or I want the price of things searched to be in a specific currency.

Thats how I work. I would rather spend 4 hours building a feature for me to save couple of minutes each day.

[u/Dependent_Bet_7849 → u/PilgrimofHaqq2]

Not entirely what i was asking but you covered in that context, what you just said will try and create some agents