What to ask Roomote

Roomote is built for the work that constantly pulls teams out of focus: questions, planning, investigations, bugfixes, review follow-up, and backlogged improvements. The best asks give a Roomote agent a clear first milestone. Teams usually start with codebase questions and small fixes, then move into bugfixes, PR review, and more complex implementation work once the workflow feels natural.

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Good asks

Start with work that is scoped, visible, and easy to verify:

• explain how a part of the codebase works
• investigate a failing test, flaky preview, or confusing error
• make a small UI or API change
• draft a plan for a larger feature
• review a pull request for regressions
• apply feedback from a source-control or Linear thread
• clean up a small maintenance item that keeps falling off the backlog

A good Roomote prompt includes the desired outcome, links to the relevant issue or pull request, and any constraints Roomote should respect.

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What to include in the ask

The strongest prompts usually include:

• the outcome you want
• the repository, environment, file path, issue, or PR Roomote should use
• any constraints that matter, such as “do not change the API contract”
• whether you want an explanation, a plan, implementation work, or review

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Ask patterns that work well

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Who uses it

Roomote is meant for the whole team, not just engineers sitting in an IDE.

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What makes a task reviewable

Roomote should leave you with enough evidence to decide what happens next:

• the transcript of what it did and why
• commands, tests, or checks it ran
• logs and terminal output when relevant
• screenshots or live previews for UI work
• code diffs and artifacts
• a pull request or clear next step when code changed

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When to keep the task smaller

Break work down when the ask spans many systems, has unclear product requirements, or needs human judgment before implementation. Roomote is useful for getting complex work started, but the best handoffs still give it a clear first milestone.