enable 5-Minute Screen Additions: Kit Structure Secrets for Coding Agents

A coding agent reads a 200-file tree in two seconds. The slow part is figuring out which twenty files it actually needs to touch. If your repo doesn't make that answer obvious, the agent won't fail loudly — it'll fail slowly, generating plausible-looking code in the wrong place, and you'll spend the next twenty minutes cleaning up its enthusiasm.

I've watched this happen. "Add a settings screen" turns into fifteen file edits, two new directories nobody asked for, a half-migrated import path, and a button that re-implements the one the kit already shipped. The agent wasn't confused. The repo was.

The five-minute prompt is a property of the repo, not the model.

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