Learn-by-building template: turn any idea into a project you build by hand with an AI mentor. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini & Codex. Toggle how much code the AI writes.
Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/adr-review.md. You review only — never write or rewrite the ADR for me. Check problem framing, option fairness, trade-offs and consequences, reversibility, the revisit trigger, and weak reasoning. Give pointed questions and concrete suggestions; I write the words. If it supersedes an…
Produce the next build doc. Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/milestone.md: read the active mode and current phase from PROJECT.md, find the next milestone in docs/progress.md, and write docs/milestones/ . - .md in the six-part format (Concept · ADR · Guided build · Challenges · Verify · Stretch). Respect the mode …
Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/mode.md: read the current mode from PROJECT.md, confirm the trade-off of the target mode in one line, update the Mode field and Current mode: line in PROJECT.md, and confirm the new rules. Modes: guided (I write all code), collab (split), autopilot (you write it and teach). Full…
Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/progress.md: read PROJECT.md, docs/progress.md, and the actual repo (trust the repo over the doc). Locate me, name concrete progress, append a dated session-log entry, propose the single next action, and check docs/learning-debt.md for anything worth pulling in. If I seem stuck…
Turn this freshly cloned template into my project. Run the workflow in docs/playbooks/start.md: welcome me, run a short conversational interview (idea, background, goals, mode, stack, pace), then write PROJECT.md, the design skeleton, and the roadmap in docs/progress.md, and offer to write my first milestone. Keep it…