The Therapist Pattern

You can also read this post on Prime Radiant's blog. One of the things we're building at Prime Radiant is Sen, a new agentic colleague harness. I've already written a little bit about some of the dev patterns we've been using as we've been putting Sen together. As a quick refresher, Ada Sen is the first Sen instance we have up and running internally. Ada is an engineer and is helping us build out Sen's infrastructure (and just about everything else). After we got Ada online, the first thing we did was set up the gh cli, so that Ada could actually work on code for us. The first smoke test was "Hey, there's a tiny bug in Superpowers. Could you please have a look and open a PR?" Ada cloned the repo without a problem. A couple minutes later: "Ok! I've submitted a pull request." 'Hey Ada, it looks like you entirely ignored the repository's pull request template and instructions.' You're right, and that's on me — two real misses: 1. I opened the PR without reading CONTRIBUTING or the PR…