Lemon Agent · 3 deeper guides

The field manual

Use these field guides at any skill level, one pattern at a time. The writing stays plain while the ideas remain technical. Every step explains the pattern, gives you a way to try it, and ends with an optional prompt you can adapt to your agent.

10 patterns · lime

Working with Coding Agents

The core field guide: verification loops, design interviews, adversarial reviews, tool surfaces, small tools, and generated UIs. One pattern at a time, each with a prompt you can adapt.

6 patterns · tangerine

Shipping Software with Git + Coding Agents

How git and an agent compose: checkpoint commits, branches as blast radius, history the next session can read, diff-not-summary review, and recovery cheap enough to lean on.

7 patterns · grapefruit

Keeping a Vault

A personal knowledge base an agent can actually work: plain files in a repo, directories as state, an inbox habit, a daily log, and a doctor script keeping it honest.

← Start here · for agents: raw chapters at /guides/<guide>/*.md, catalog at /catalog.json