agent-instructionsWriting or restructuring AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md, adding a rule ('remember this'), or after an agent ignored a rule it had: make each rule get met when it applies.
flight-deck'What's the status', 'where were we', a progress report or status deck; long work that must survive compaction: multi-hour runs, background jobs, waiting on a decision.
guardrail-hooksAn agent keeps breaking a rule ('it did it again', 'make this impossible', 'add a hook', 'my hook didn't fire'): make it a hook, permission rule or script.
handoverWrite the handover a fresh session starts from: the objective, what is true now, the evidence actually obtained, what is left, the open decisions and the next concrete action, reconciled with the disk first. Started by name only: /agent-harness:handover in Claude Code, $agent-harness:handover in Cod
retroBuild a session's learnings into the setup: its friction, what went wrong and why, then an improved instruction, route, hook or script, verified, or 'no setup change warranted'. Started by name only: /agent-harness:retro in Claude Code, $agent-harness:retro in Codex.
windows-agent-shellA coding agent on Windows: Git Bash path rewriting, PowerShell quoting and encoding, CRLF. Use when output comes back garbled, or it works here and breaks there.