A long-form prompt for a long-context autonomous coding agent (Codex Pro,
Claude Sonnet w/ repo access, etc.) — NOT a Pi prompt. Goal: produce a
comprehensive docs/ knowledge base so the bot doesn't have to rediscover
Mineflayer API surface and core Minecraft mechanics (mobs, biomes,
recipes, ore Y-levels, farming, breeding) every time it tries something
new.
Design constraints baked into the prompt:
- PR-only workflow. Worker agent operates on a feat/knowledge-base
branch; main stays untouched so the live bot is unaffected until the
operator reviews and merges.
- docs/ only. Never write skills/ — that's the bot's notebook; pre-
writing procedural skills kills emergence. Reference material is the
textbook; the bot stays the author of its own procedures.
- One-line AGENTS.md addition pointing to docs/, no broader policy
rewrite. Behaviour change is "consult docs/ before I'll try to learn".
- package.json gets four universal-useful plugins added (collectblock,
auto-eat, tool, armor-manager); statemachine/pvp/blockfinder/viewer
are left for the bot to opt into.
- Concrete definition of done, scope estimate (10-30h), review
checklist for spot-checking hallucinations before merge.
- Re-run triggers documented (MC version bump, Mineflayer major,
new must-have plugin).
Included so future operators / forks can repeat this kind of one-off
seeding without re-deriving the prompt. Lives alongside the Pi prompts
in prompts/, even though it targets a different runtime — the
prompts/ folder is the right home for "reusable prompts" regardless of
which agent consumes them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
