Guides
Start with something you want to accomplish. Each guide gives you a useful request for your agent, explains what happens next, and helps you recognize the result. You can use your own words; the examples show how to make your intent clear.
If discerndiscernA tool that installs and runs an agent development practice in a project. is new to the project, begin with installation and setup.
When you need more context
§The guides explain the flow; a command's returned result identifies the next action for the project as it stands now. If something differs from the example, ask your agent to explain that result and follow its recovery instructions.
Understand explains the concepts behind the work. Reference supplies exact command and setting details. Troubleshooting starts from symptoms you can recognize.
In this section
§- Finish and land a changeAsk for a finished change, review the result and its evidence, and decide when it joins the shared project.
- Land an urgent repairLand a fix before its checks can finish, understand what you are accepting, and settle the checks afterwards.
- Fix a red gateUnderstand a failed check, give your agent a useful recovery request, and recognize when the change is ready again.
- Recover an interrupted taskPick up an unfinished task, find out what happened during an interrupted check or landing, or restore committed work from a dropped branch.
- Delegate substantial workTurn a large idea into clear tasks, give agents what they need, and review what comes back.
- Coordinate parallel tasksKeep several tasks moving, understand their dependencies, and bring their results together.
- Wait for another taskLet a dependent agent continue when the work it needs is ready, without carrying messages between sessions.
- Write project instructionsRecord a working rule once, supply it to your configured coding tools, and confirm a fresh session can use it.
- Maintain the project mapKeep the project's explanation useful as features grow, with evidence, clear boundaries, and links to the right working knowledge.
- Create and manage skillsDiscover useful requests for discern's bundled skills, then create or adapt a reusable method for your own project.
- Set and raise standardsChoose a useful measure, retain an improvement, and make informed decisions when a limit is reached.
- Place and answer checkpointsMake a recurring review question part of the workflow, and understand the decisions its answers bring back.
- Improve the practiceUse the project's local record to choose a useful improvement, test it, and see whether it helps later work.
- Connect a coding agentConnect one supported coding agent using the shared setup path and the provider-specific facts it needs.
- Run the gate in CIRun report-only gate evidence in CI and require the result without implying landing authority.
- Maintain or remove discernFormat discern-owned surfaces, upgrade safely, diagnose the installation, or remove discern while preserving project-owned work.