Comment by jauntywundrkind

To get the agent to think for itself sometimes it feels like I have to delete a bunch of code and markdown first. Instruction to refactor/reconsider broadly has such mild success, I find.

I'll literally run an agent & tell it to clean up a markdown file that has too much design in it, delete the technical material, and/or delete key implementations/interfaces in the source, then tell a new session to do the work, come up with the design. (Then undelete and reconcile with less naive sessions.)

Path dependence is so strong. Right now I do this flow manually but I would very much like to codify this, make a skill for this pattern that serves so well.