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Five templates for building small software with AI agents
For people building small software products with AI coding agents, working alone or in a small team. Plain-text templates for handing work to an agent, getting a second reader, logging experiments, studying content openings and deciding when to launch. Free to copy, adapt and share.
All examples are invented and illustrative. Using these templates does not guarantee any result. They ask for no email address and have no forms.
The templates
- 01Agent Task BriefOne bounded piece of work, handed to an AI agent, with the edges written down: what it may touch, what it must leave alone, and what “done” looks like.
- 02Second-Reader ChecklistA record that someone other than the maker looked at a change, what they looked at, what they tried to break, and what nobody checked.
- 03Experiment LedgerA running record of small experiments, written so you cannot quietly decide afterwards what counted as a win.
- 04Hook Analysis WorksheetFor the content you make about your product: a worksheet for studying why the first seconds of your own videos or posts did or did not work, without copying anyone’s words.
- 05Launch Readiness ChecklistA go or no-go gate for anything you are about to make public, with a line for evidence beside every yes.
Three words used on these pages
- Agent: an AI tool that carries out a task in several steps of its own (writing code, searching, drafting), rather than only answering one chat message.
- Second reader: a different person or a different AI model from the maker, who checks the work against the requirement before it is called done. A second session of the same model does not count.
- Hook: the first seconds of a video or the first line of a post, the part that decides whether someone keeps watching or reading.
How they are meant to be used
- Each page has a short how-to, a copyable plain-text version, one worked example, and the reason behind the less obvious fields.
- Every example uses made-up names and numbers, and none of them describe real results.
- Templates are starting points. Cut the fields you do not need.
- The version number belongs to the template on this page, not to your copy. If you cut or change fields, write “v1.0, edited” at the top of your copy.