Live Agent Simulation
Prompt
Agent Response
Agentic engineering
Stop vibe coding. Start agentic engineering.
A single prompt to bring professional engineering standards to agentic workflows.
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Open your AI tool, start a new chat, and paste the bootstrap prompt below to initialize the Singletrack workflow.
Recursive Bootstrap Prompt
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Why Singletrack
The impulsive coder problem
Standard AI agents prioritize a quick response over a correct architecture. They start writing code before they understand your constraints or your naming conventions. This usually leads to a series of quick fixes that eventually break the codebase. It feels fast at first, but you eventually spend all your time fighting the entropy the model created. You are no longer building software; you are just trying to keep the project from falling apart.
The personality transplant
Singletrack is a personality transplant for the model. It moves the AI from a reactive coder to a proactive development team. By enforcing a strict separation between the intent and the plan, you maintain total control. Features are defined by success criteria before the first line is written.
The context burst
This is the moment of clarity. During the scout phase, the system performs a recursive discovery of your entire codebase. The AI gains full spectrum awareness of your naming conventions and utilities before implementation begins. It allows the agent to work with the same context as a lead engineer.
The five-phase handshake
Delivery runs in order: intent, discovery, specification, implementation, verification. Each step has a clear input, output, and gate before the model advances. Use the walkthrough below to see what to ask at each phase and how a disciplined agent should answer.
Agentic Handshake
| Phase | Owner Agent | Input | Output | Gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Product Manager (Intent Formulation) | Product Manager | Feature request | intents/INT-XX-title.md | Human approval |
| 2) The Scout (Context Burst & Discovery) | Scout | Approved intent | discovery/DIS-XX-report.md + 2-3 strategies with tradeoffs | Path selected |
| 3) The Architect (Spec Generation) | Architect | Selected strategy | specs/SPC-XX-spec.md | Spec completeness review |
| 4) The Coder (Implementation) | Coder | Approved spec | plans/PLN-XX-PLAN.md + phase implementation | Per-phase tests pass |
| 5) The Verifier (QA) | Verifier | Completed phases | QA evidence + Intent marked complete | Success criteria empirically proven |