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Agent task briefing checklist — 10 anti-patterns (free)

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If you hand work to an AI agent (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, custom agents), most failures trace back to the brief, not the model. Here are 10 anti-patterns I keep seeing, each with a one-line fix. Copy freely. Smell these in your briefs. Each wastes tokens, time, or trust. 1. The vibes brief “Make…

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