Show HN: Railspike, a coding agent prompting system I've been using for 2 years

Category: devtools

Tags: ai-agents, prompt-engineering, workflow, markdown, code-review

Score: 5.5/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 3, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Railspike is a Markdown-based prompting system for coding agents that enforces a plan-first workflow: the agent writes requirements and a staged plan into the repo, pauses for human approval at each step, then implements and commits work stage by stage. It stands out for its explicit review gates and repo-persistent plans, but it's an instruction convention rather than enforcement.

Target audience: backend devs, full-stack devs, engineering teams using AI coding assistants

Repository: https://railspike.dev/ · MIT · 2 stars

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