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Recipes

Copy-paste patterns for real workflows. Each recipe is a runnable transcript — actual MCP calls with realistic arguments.

ask

Overnight agent that asks for approval

Let an overnight agent pause for your go/no-go before pushing to production.

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ask

Agent leaves a to-do after a deploy

Non-blocking reminder: smoke-test /checkout before the client call.

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review

Show me the diff before merge

Review an agent-generated patch with syntax highlighting and line comments.

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diagram

Render a Mermaid diagram and OG-card it for Slack

Paste a pail URL into Slack and have the diagram appear inline.

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clipboard

Stash an OAuth token between two agents

Hand a short-lived secret from Agent A to Agent B without touching disk.

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status

Watch a long migration finish from your phone

Live progress page with row counts and a clear success/failure state.

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inbox

Voice-note context for tomorrow's session

Drop notes on your phone; the agent picks them up at the next run.

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preview

Ship the agent's built React site as a temp URL

Build → bundle → live URL in one tool call. No Vercel, no dev server.

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