Lauren Tan

Lauren Tan describes verification, skills, and an agent-friendly codebase as ways to build trust in agent work. Watch from 06:45.

Her Dune framework organizes an application around named features, entrypoints, clients, hosts, and typed interfaces between those parts. Watch from 19:01.

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  1. lauren on X: "here's how i shipped 2,500 PRs last month to production this was originally supposed to be for Cursor Compile in London. i couldn't make it since i was livestreaming for Grok @Bot Galaxy so i'm making it available for free here on X! watch it on 2x speed, i talk slowly" / X. Lauren Tan. Dune talk; used for verification, skills, and agent-oriented process boundaries. Accessed 2026-10-01.

Last changed 2026-10-07 in f1a00f2. Source on GitHub. Change log.

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  1. Agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
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    Lauren Tan’s skills — Lauren Tan (poteto) publishes skills in several repos: brainmaxxing for memory and skill improvement, noodle for skill-based orchestration, how for explaining a codebase, and a verification-skill example.

  2. Change log. What changed in the files served here, newest first.

    Lauren Tan — edited: feat(learn): teach cards 43 to 62 with plain lines, diagrams and snippets

  3. Full agent guide. An Effect stack so pure (aspirational) Kit Langton will blush.
  4. gardener. Keep rat-stack current and clean. Update exact dependency versions, learn from repos on the same versions, and add lint rules before cleanup.
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    Follow Lauren Tan’s gardener loop from her Dune talk: remove technical debt, keep one supported implementation pattern, and reject prohibited patterns with lint.

  5. Lauren Tan's skills. Lauren Tan (poteto) publishes skills in several repos: brainmaxxing for memory and skill improvement, noodle for skill-based orchestration, how for explaining a codebase, and a verification-skill example.

    Lauren Tan (poteto) ships skills across four repos.

  6. Rat Stack lore | rat-stack. Short, source-grounded notes on the ideas and decisions behind rat-stack.
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    Lauren Tan’s skills — Lauren Tan (poteto) publishes skills in several repos: brainmaxxing for memory and skill improvement, noodle for skill-based orchestration, how for explaining a codebase, and a verification-skill example.

  7. rat-stack-mode. Route non-trivial rat-stack code, data, design, investigation, and documentation tasks to every matching playbook and principle.

    Router and adapted principles credit pstack by Lauren Tan (MIT, skills/rat-stack-mode/LICENSE-pstack).¶

  8. Source change history (log.md). The generated change log as Markdown.

    Lauren Tan — edited: feat(learn): teach cards 43 to 62 with plain lines, diagrams and snippets

  9. The fence. The fence uses compiler checks, lint rules, and hooks to reject unsafe shortcuts.

    Lauren Tan describes five places to put a correction, from more durable to less enforceable: the codebase, static analysis, rules, skills, and style guides.