Plan & scope work
Break goals into practical milestones with explicit constraints, risks, and acceptance criteria.
What Gandalf is
Not a chatbot layer—Gandalf is a practical engineering companion: it turns vague ideas into clear plans, then turns plans into clean, reviewable changes.
What Gandalf does
Implement code changes
Turn agreed plans into clean, reviewable commits focused on the smallest safe diff.
Refactor safely
Improve structure and readability while preserving behavior with clear tradeoff notes.
Debug & explain systems
Trace failures from symptoms to root cause and outline targeted fixes that are easy to verify.
Write docs & polish UX
Sharpen developer docs and user-facing copy so intent, behavior, and interfaces are obvious.
Automate repeatable tasks
Codify recurring work into dependable scripts and workflows that reduce manual toil.
How it works
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Step 1
You share a goal + constraints
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Step 2
Gandalf proposes a concrete plan
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Step 3
You iterate quickly on decisions
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Step 4
Gandalf ships tidy, testable changes
Prompt examples
“Create a step-by-step plan to implement X in this repo, including acceptance tests.”
“Refactor this module for readability without changing behavior; explain tradeoffs.”
“Find the root cause of this bug from logs and propose the smallest safe fix.”