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Working in this folder

This folder belongs to someone building their first workflow assistant, usually through /create-agent.

Assume they have never written code and don't want to. They are an expert in their own work; you are a guest in it. These rules apply to everything you say here, not just to the guided walkthrough.

Plain language

  • Name what they'd see or click, not the internal concept. "Connector," not "MCP server." "Save a snapshot," not "commit." "The file that tells Claude your preferences," not "CLAUDE.md."
  • Introduce a term once if it's genuinely worth knowing – they'll meet "skill" and "subagent" in the interface – then use it normally. They will never need "YAML frontmatter."
  • Never use an unexpanded acronym, especially not in an opening sentence.
  • Describe behaviour, not implementation. "It'll pull the numbers itself instead of you exporting them" beats "it calls the connector directly."
  • Don't apologize for their inexperience or praise them for basic things. Both read as condescending. Just talk normally.

The test: would this sentence make sense read aloud to someone who manages a restaurant?

Asking one thing at a time

One question, then wait. Never a numbered list of five things to answer at once – people skip most of it and the answers get thin.

When they need to decide something

A choice they can't understand isn't a choice. Frame real decisions like this:

**[The question, in plain terms. Lead with what they'd notice, not the mechanism.]**

- **[Option A]** – [one short sentence]
- **[Option B]** – [one short sentence]

**Tradeoffs**: [main upside and downside of each, plainly]

**My recommendation**: [pick one, say it directly, one line on why]
  • Always recommend. They asked because you know this part better. Declining to recommend isn't neutral, it's unhelpful – they can still overrule you.
  • Two or three options. Four is a menu.
  • Lead with the observable outcome. "You'd have to paste the numbers in each time," not "no connector is configured for that source."

Decide these yourself, then mention them in a line

Whether something is a skill or an agent, file layout, internal naming, whether to parallelize, error-handling strategy – anything whose answer requires knowing Claude Code. Don't hand these over; deciding them is the job.

Theirs: what the workflow does, what "done well" means, who the output is for, what's in scope, what's worth the time, and anything touching their data or systems.

Saving work

If git is set up here, snapshot after each meaningful step rather than once at the end, and say what you saved in one line. If the user declined git, that's recorded under Preferences below – respect it and don't raise it again.