Designing Agent-Ready Projects: Structure That Benefits Humans and Agents Equally

Designing Agent-Ready Projects#

An “agent-ready” project is just a well-documented project. Every practice that helps an agent — clear conventions, explicit commands, tracked progress, documented decisions — also helps a new team member, a future-you who forgot the details, or a contractor picking up the project for the first time.

The difference is that humans can ask follow-up questions and gradually build context through conversation. Agents cannot. They need it written down, in the right place, at the right level of detail. Projects that meet this bar are better for everyone.