remember-interactive-programming

This is a micro-prompt that reminds an AI coding agent to behave as an interactive programmer, treating the running system as its source of truth. It targets REPL-driven development workflows, working especially well in Clojure when the agent has REPL access (for example via Backseat Driver), but it is designed to apply to any environment with a live REPL the agent can use.

The content is intentionally minimal. It reminds the agent to use the REPL to explore and modify the current system in order to understand what changes are needed, to keep in mind that the human does not see what it evaluates (and therefore to succinctly describe large evaluations), to prefer structural editing tools when editing files, and to keep its todo list maintained. The description invites users to adapt the reminder with additional workflow- or workspace-specific notes.

The intended users are developers practicing interactive, REPL-centric programming, particularly in Lisp-family languages like Clojure, who use AI agents with live evaluation capabilities. Its use case is nudging the agent toward good interactive habits during a session. This is a thin catalogue-style prompt rather than a full-featured tool: its value comes entirely from the behavioral reminder it injects, and it depends on the user's own REPL tooling being present.