Preparing Specs for AI Coding Agents (opens in new tab)

AI coding agents now edit repositories, run commands, and produce branches. That makes the spec before the work more important: it carries the context, boundaries, and success criteria the agent needs. What a good coding-agent spec includes Specs are becoming more important because AI coding agents are no longer only answering questions. They are reading repositories, editing files, running commands, producing branches, and asking humans to review the result. That changes what a prompt needs ...