A few things really leveled up both my software quality and my productivity in the last few months. It wasn’t session history, memory files, context management or any of that.
1. Writing a spec with clear acceptance criteria.
2. Assigning IDs to my acceptance criteria. Sounds tedious, but actually the idea wasn’t mine, at some point an agent went and did it without me asking. The references proved so useful for guiding my review that I formalized the process (and switched from .md to .yaml to make it easier).
3. Giving my agents a source of truth to share implementation progress so they can plan their own tasks and more effectively review.
Of course, I can’t help myself, I had to formalize it into a spec standard and a toolkit. Gonna open source it all soon, but I really want feedback before I go too far down the rabbit hole: