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Builder's notebook

Building with agents.
Keeping the thread.

Practical notes on planning the work, handing it over, and knowing what actually shipped. From our work building software with agentic tools.

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Practical guide

How to keep an AI coding agent focused on one task

Give your coding agent a clear result, boundaries and checks before it edits anything. This guide includes a brief you can adapt, a way to handle extra ideas, and practical review questions for a single change to your app.

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Before the first edit
OutcomeSay what should become possible.
BoundariesName what must stay unchanged.
ChecksDecide how to review the result.
Make assumptions visible before they become code.

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Giljo HQ workflow: the movie. Grab a snack.

This seven-and-a-half-minute film follows one change: adding search to an app. See how product background becomes a project, how your connected agents prepare the plan, and where you give the go-ahead. Then follow the work through to the changes and checks you review.

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Why we needed a place for the work

We were building software with coding agents. The instructions around each session kept growing: what to read, which decisions mattered, and where the work had stopped. Giljo HQ grew from the need to keep that background and the work connected.

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Why a notebook?

We build software with agentic tools. Here we share practical examples, the choices behind our tools and what we learn as the work develops.

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