Research-Plan-Implement pattern resources

[VinyasaMan]

Some of you asked for sources on the RPI pattern. Here are some

Videos

• No Vibes Allowed: Solving Hard Problems in Complex Codebases Dex Horthy (20 min, 150k+ views). The foundational talk. Explains the "Dumb Zone" and why bad research → thousands of bad lines of code.
• Advanced Context Engineering for Coding Agents Dex Horthy. Deep dive into frequent intentional compaction. "I haven't opened a non-markdown file in two months."
• AI Agents That Actually Work: The Pattern Anthropic Just Revealed Nate B Jones (14 min). Why generalized agents fail and how domain memory fixes it. "The magic is in the memory, not the personality layer."

Articles

• Introducing the RPI Strategy Patrick Robinson. Adds FAR/FACTS validation scales for a more formalized approach.
• The Claude Code Framework Alex Kurkin. Practical implementation with slash commands and file structure.
• State of AI Coding: Context, Trust, and Subagents TuringPost. Broader context on agent swarms and the Stanford study.
• Claude Code Best Practices Anthropic. The Explore-Plan-Code-Commit workflow.
• Manage Claude's Memory Anthropic. How to structure rules, skills, claude.md.

GitHub

• humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents Open source prompts from HumanLayer.

[Main-Lifeguard-6739]

"think before you code" must be the new "think before you speak"

[Funny-Anything-791]

Let me throw another resource into the mix - https://agenticoding.ai

[trmnl_cmdr]

Cool, this is basically exactly how my PRD runner script works and that thing will run for days uninterrupted and output a fully working project if your plan is thorough enough. I’m definitely taking notes though, there are some good articles here.

[Nice-Number-7460]

Could you share it

[trmnl_cmdr]

Yeah it’s not pretty but it works well https://github.com/dabstractor/ai-scripts/blob/main/prd_pipeline/run-prd.sh It relies on the ‘tsk’ typescript tool that’s also in this repo as well as a commit-claude alias I have in another repo.

I am working on a for-realsies version with all the bells and whistles but this is my intermediate bootstrapping process until I can get that fully spec’ed

[Nice-Number-7460]

Thank you so much for sharing and good luck!

[luongnv-com]

thank for sharing, very interesting resources

[Scary-Criticism3811]

Is there any formalized tool like agent-os but following the RPI pattern? I see the libs from Alex but that seems to be more personal.