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Design the solution

Decide how the pieces fit together and write it down so others can review it.

For Software engineer · Knowledge pack and an independent checker

What are you writing?

One line is enough. Step 1 asks the rest in your AI app, and nothing is done until you approve the brief it writes.

It never leaves this computer: not uploaded to Cheatcode, never used to train a model. Your AI app reads it from the case folder.

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Start

Step 1 asks anything else it needs, in your AI app. Nothing you write here or put in the case folder comes to Cheatcode.

In the case folder's materials/: The notes, documents or past examples it should rest on.

The 5 steps

  1. 01

    Gather and frame

    Then you approve, before the next step starts.

  2. 02

    Outline

    Then you approve, before the next step starts.

  3. 03

    Draft

  4. 04

    Independent check

  5. 05

    Finish

How it does this well

One writer from the person's material, checked by a fresh reader. Not found and out of scope are valid answers here: it says so instead of guessing.

How the field does this well
  • Write the check first: a failing test, a typecheck or a command that comes back pass or fail.
  • Work one unit at a time and show the command that ran and its output as evidence.
  • Have a reader who did not write the change review it against the written spec, and skip style.
  • Keep state in files: a list of checks whose status may only flip to passing, and a progress note.
Ground it first

Ask for, or look in materials/ for: the repository or files to change, how its tests run, and the coding standards. If there is none, say plainly that the result rests on general defaults, and name them.

What stays with the person

Scoping ambiguous work, architecture choices, and the final merge or release. Prepare these; never decide them.

The check that makes it trustworthy

A failing check written first, a passing run shown as output, and an independent review of the change against the spec.

The person's own data

If the person has connected GitHub, Linear, Jira + Confluence, Postgres, read their data through that connector instead of asking for exports, and say which source each number or fact came from. Without one, work from materials/.

The agents

checker
Checks a Cheatcode draft against its brief and its claims with fresh eyes, pass or fail per criterion.

Where things stay

On your computer
Your files in materials/, every result in outputs/, the work itself. It runs in your AI app, on the plan you already pay for.
With Cheatcode
The steps, the gates and how far each case has come, so a case survives closing the app. See your cases.