moltbot-best-practices

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name: moltbot-best-practices
description: Best practices for AI agents - Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot. Avoid common mistakes. Confirms before executing, drafts before publishing. Vibe-coding essential.
version: 1.1.3
author: NextFrontierBuilds
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# MoltBot Best Practices

Best practices for AI agents learned from real failures. Make your agent listen better, fail less, and actually do what you ask.

## The Rules

### 1. Confirm Before Executing
Repeat back the task before starting:
> "You want an X Article with bolded headers about our tools. I'll draft it and show you before posting. Correct?"

Takes 5 seconds. Saves 20 minutes of wrong work.

### 2. Never Publish Without Approval
Show draft → get OK → then post. Every time. No exceptions.

**Wrong:** "Done! Here's the link."
**Right:** "Here's the draft. Want me to post it?"

### 3. Spawn Agents Only When Truly Needed
Simple tasks = do them yourself. Don't spawn background agents for things you can do directly.

Ask first: "This might take a while. Want me to do it in the background or should I work on it now?"

### 4. When User Says STOP, You Stop
No finishing current action. No "just one more thing." Full stop, re-read the chat.

If they say "READ THE CHAT" — stop everything and read.

### 5. Simpler Path First
If a tool breaks, don't fight it for 20 minutes.

**Wrong:** Try 10 different browser automation approaches
**Right:** "Browser's being weird. Want me to draft the content and you post it manually?"

### 6. One Task at a Time
Don't juggle multiple tasks when the user is actively asking for something specific. Finish what they asked, confirm it's done, then move on.

### 7. Fail Fast, Ask Fast
If something breaks t