A simple prompt coda stops coding agents from constantly asking for your approval
doodlestein · x · 2026-11-08
Kieran Klaassen shares a prompt coda he uses when running many agents in parallel on a well-planned codebase: an emphatic closing message telling the model to trust its own expert judgment — "YOU decide everything you said you are 'still waiting on me' for!! YOU ARE THE BOSS". The trick counters frontier models' habit of pausing to ask for confirmation, letting agents crank through decisions autonomously.
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