Want a free customizable AI coding team?

Use it to create new apps or make changes/additions to existing ones.

This set of instructions (markdown files) enhances and extends the modes/agents that come with many coding agent/asisstants (or make your own). The instructions are tailored to work with Roo Code (free highly customizable VS Code extension) but will work with many others, including Github Copilot and CLine.

Using the built-in-to-Roo ability to use rules files, this archive is a set of custom instructions for the built-in modes and some new ones, including:

  • Replaces “Architect” with a 3-step “Planner” process (planner-a, planner-b, planner-c). This Planner goes deep in the planning of phases and tasks, making each task atomic and super detailed in nature so that even “Coder-Jr” can easily do the task quickly and cheaply.

  • Supplements “Code” with a tightly controlled budget-friendly “Code Monkey (Coder-Jr)” created to work with the short, detailed tasks created for it by Planner.

  • Front-end, Debugger, Tester, GitHub, Docs Writer, etc.

  • While planning and working, creates files to keep track of its goals, progress, and lessons learned. Yeah, too many times an interruption during planning or execution would cause loss of data, me/it not knowing where it had left off, etc. So now, from the start, files are created that track the progress of the planning so interruptions no longer matter!

New: Skills

**All modes will now consume far less tokens,**

**use up less of models’ oh-so-precioius context memory,**

**and follow instructions better!**

I’ve added quite a few skills in the `{base folder}/.roo/skills` folder.

I’ll go into more detail later. For now:

  • Roo Code has added skills to Roo! https://docs.roocode.com/features/skills

  • They use the Agent Skills open format. https://agentskills.io/home

  • Here is a skill marketplace with over 38,000 skills! https://skillsmp.com

Notes:

  • This set of instructions is ever-evolving.

  • The author, Scott Howard Swain, is always eager to hear ideas to improve this.

Get it free here: https://github.com/ScotterMonk/AgentAutoFlow

Watch the animated musical story / prediction of where things could be going and how we get there. Trigger warning: It starts out dark.

A music video of the future by Scott Howard Swain