How I Built a Workspace for My Coding Assistants

Description and use

The author built a centralized rules and skills repository for coding assistants, reducing repetitive requests, improving project organization, and enabling phone-based remote work.

Problem

Repetitive requests to coding assistants caused inefficiency and required manual repetition across projects.

Outcome

The workspace reduced repetitive explanations, improved organization, and allowed the author to continue work from phone, though it depended on the laptop remaining powered.

Workflow

• Identify repetitive requests
• Write rules in a shared repo
• Create skills describing preferred workflows
• Use rulesync to generate agent‑specific rule files
• Distribute generated files to projects
• Add personal notes (e.g., camping plans) to the same repo
• Access workspace remotely from phone
• Keep laptop on for remote agent execution

Evidence

I got tired of repeating the same requests.

Source

I copied the agreements, refined them, and soon ran into the next nuisance: now I had to keep all the copies consistent.

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When tools for working with agents remotely became available, I was able to try that too.

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