Goal
- By the end of the first week, the goal is not just a few artifacts. It is a simple way of working you can keep extending.
Day 5 Of 5
Write your default rules and pick your next project
By the end of the first week, the goal is not just a few artifacts. It is a simple way of working you can keep extending.
Today's Win
What success looks like today.
Keep the scope small enough that you can finish and feel the win.
You will leave with
- A short rule sheet and a next-project brief
If you work in sales
- This is where the beginner starts becoming a power user: you decide what the agent should always do for you, what it should avoid, and what real project comes next.
Steps
Do these in order.
Keep the scope small enough that you can actually finish.
1
Review your journal, prompts, and shipped artifacts from the week.
2
Ask what felt energizing versus what felt noisy or overwhelming.
3
Write a short rule sheet for how you want the agent to collaborate with you.
4
Choose one next project: a better site, a work playbook, a small product, or a repeatable business workflow.
5
If this becomes a real business later, then you can add domains, payments, and business infrastructure. That is optional, not the starting point.
Need A Prompt?
Open today's prompt only when you are ready to actually run the session.
You can edit the bracketed parts, but keep the overall structure. The structure is part of the beginner safety rail.
Open the prompt for day 5 Use this when you want the page to turn into a real working session.
Pasteable Prompt
Write your default rules and pick your next project prompt
Help me review my first week with coding agents.
Questions:
- What actually worked?
- What overwhelmed me?
- What should become part of my default setup?
- What should I stop doing?
Then write a short rule sheet for how I want my agent to work with me from now on.
Keep it specific and practical.If the output becomes too sprawling, go back to the do-less prompt from Start Here.
Common Mistakes
Open these if today starts feeling heavier than it should.
Beginners usually suffer from over-scope, not under-ambition.
See today's watchouts These are the usual ways to accidentally make the day harder.
Watchout
Do not copy someone else’s operating style without testing it.
Watchout
Keep the rule sheet short enough that you will actually update it.
Watchout
Your next project should be exciting enough that you want to open the folder again tomorrow.
See the deeper guide note under today Open this only if you want the extra layer behind today's exercise.
Guide Note 5
Step Back And Review Your Setup
Once your setup starts feeling comfortable, you need a different mode whose whole job is to find what is wrong with it.
Open the guide noteNextYou have finished the five-day sprint.Go deeper into the lessons