What you get
The exercise is optional, and once asked it waits for your answer rather than supplying one.
A Short Exercise After the Architectural Work
Added 2026-08-06Once a piece of architectural work lands, it asks whether you want a ten-to-fifteen-minute exercise: predict then observe, generate then compare, trace an execution path, debug it, teach it back, or a retrieval warm-up.
The design point is that it pauses for your answer instead of answering itself — which cuts against the model's default urge to hand over a complete answer, and the author says it can feel frustrating. Two suppressions run automatically: decline once in a session, or finish two exercises, and it stops offering. The marketplace holds two more plugins: a post-commit prompt hook, and orient, which briefs you on an unfamiliar repo based on research showing experts sample strategically. The author is a psychologist studying software teams.