Skill Overview
--- 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 keywords: [moltbot, openclaw, ai-agent, ai-coding, best-practices, prompt-engineering, agent-behavior, claude, claude-code, gpt, chatgpt, cursor, copilot, github-copilot, vibe-coding, automation, ai-assistant, coding-agent, agentic, ai-tools, developer-tools, devtools, typescript, llm] --- # 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
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Confirm before executing is the whole game
A short, opinionated ruleset distilled from real agent failures. Rule one is the one that matters: repeat the task back and get a yes before acting, so a misunderstanding costs one message instead of a bad artifact. It also pushes draft-before-publish, which turns an irreversible mistake into a reviewable diff. It is prompt guidance rather than code, so its value depends entirely on whether your system prompt actually loads it.
Use case: Hardening a coding agent's behaviour before letting it touch a repo
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Habits that keep an agent from guessing
This is a short rule set distilled from real failures, aimed at coding and assistant agents. It covers confirmation before work, approval before publishing, restraint around background agents, and how to respond when a correction arrives. ## What it does - Requires repeating the task back before starting, which catches a misread request in seconds. - Forbids publishing anything before a draft has been shown and approved. - Discourages spawning background agents for work that can be done directly. - Sets the expected behaviour when a correction or a change of mind arrives mid task. - Applies across agent families such as cursor, claude, chatgpt and copilot style assistants. ## When it is the wrong choice The confirm first rule adds a round trip that is pure overhead for cheap reversible actions, so applying it to every file read or search slows work without adding safety. Approval gates also assume a human is present to answer; in an unattended scheduled run nobody replies, and a hard gate stalls the job instead of protecting it. The better trade is to gate only actions that are expensive, public or hard to undo, and let reversible local work proceed. ```bash # draft first, then ask # wrong: publish straight away and hand over a link # right: show the draft and ask whether to publish # for cheap reversible steps, skip the gate and report after the fact ``` ## Working notes - Rule one costs five seconds and routinely saves twenty minutes of wrong work. - The rules describe behaviour, so they apply to any agent with tool access.
Quick Facts
Install
npx clawhub@latest install moltbot-best-practices