boot.vue

src/boot.vue is the agent's standing system prompt. It forms the base context for every session and task, and hot-reloads in local development for future work.

Put here what the agent should always know: who it is, how it operates, what it's working on, what standards it holds. This is the context the runtime can safely include for every invocation without thinking about it.

The .vue format lets you compose identity from reusable components. Components in src/prompts/components/ are auto-imported — no import statements needed. boot.vue is not a web component — .vue here is a text template format.

<!-- src/boot.vue -->
<template>
    <h1>Barry</h1>
    <Identity />
    <Personality />
    <WorkingPractices />
</template>

Each component is a .vue file in src/prompts/components/ that renders a section of the system prompt. This lets you split a long boot prompt into named, composable pieces without duplicating content across agents or prompts.

Markdown fallback

For simple agents, src/boot.md works as a plain markdown file:

# Boot

You are a coding assistant working in this repository.
Read the codebase before making suggestions.
Prefer small, focused changes over large rewrites.

What belongs here

  • Agent identity — name, role, tone
  • Standing operating rules and constraints
  • Project conventions and layout
  • Anything true across every task this agent handles

What doesn't belong here

  • Current tickets, incidents, or task details — those go in prompts loaded at invocation
  • Secrets or environment values — those go in .env
  • One-off instructions — those go in a prompt or directly in a script