AI Getting Started Series ②: How I talk to AI agents — the hooks / permissions / CLAUDE.md three-layer constraint hierarchy

How I talk to AI agents: three mindsets, four meta-skills, and a rules file that shouldn't keep growing

The previous post, Getting Started from Scratch, was about how to install it and get it running. This post is about using it well. And that is completely different from just getting it to run. I’ve found that what really determines the outcome isn’t which model you use or whether you can code. It’s how you delegate tasks and how you set up guardrails. The stuff in this post isn’t tied to a specific tool; it applies even if you use ChatGPT (I’ll explain the differences in the last section). ...

July 24, 2026 · 19 min · 3990 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen