GitHub - GonChen/real-engineering-prompt: Bridge the minimal behavioral gap between the latest coding agents and real engineering execution. · GitHub

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GonChen's open-source repository 'real-engineering-prompt' provides concise, tool-agnostic guidelines designed to bridge the behavioural gap between modern coding agents and real-world engineering execution.

Key points

  1. Focuses on minimal behavioural constraints instead of persona roleplay or redundant coding manuals
  2. Enforces minimal necessary complexity while fully satisfying task requirements
  3. Restricts code changes strictly to the task boundary, preventing unsolicited refactoring and wide reformatting
  4. Demands observable evidence of success through tests, builds, and runtime validation
  5. Resolves low-risk ambiguities autonomously from context, escalating questions only for substantial design or safety impacts
  6. Adopts controlled technical phrasing informed by ASD-STE100 principles to separate facts from assumptions

Why it matters

Modern LLMs already understand frameworks and coding patterns. Bloated prompts often introduce noise, making targeted constraints on execution behaviour a more effective way to prevent agent failure modes.

Analysis

The project assumes that as models improve, effective prompts should become more concise. Rather than claiming to turn agents into senior engineers through vague personas, GonChen targets specific failure patterns: unnecessary scope expansion, lack of verifiable proof, and trivial conversational stops. The repository also includes an AGENTS.spare.md file with dormant rules that teams can selectively adopt when corresponding issues recur in practice.

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    Johann Nepomuk Bergerstraße 7/2/14
    7210 Mattersburg, Austria
  • Vienna
    Ungargasse 64-66/3/404
    1030 Wien, Austria

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