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Wiki-driven development: agents keep a decision wiki for the human

What to do

Add a CLAUDE.md instruction so your coding agent writes decisions, open questions and status to a wiki.

Why

A team practice where the human sets direction from the agent's own written status.

Read the source at news.ycombinator.com

What the research found

A HN post describes a team practice where coding agents write a human-facing wiki of significant decisions, open questions and status so the human sets direction; a practice idea that can be tried with a CLAUDE.md instruction.

Claims and how well the evidence supports them

  1. Agents write a wiki recording significant decisions, open questions and status for the human to set direction 99%
  2. Decisions record rejected options so reasoning is preserved 99%

Evidence

Actionability rated medium.