Guides
Automatically find the best work in a project
Give Automatic Hunt a sentence and a time budget; it inspects the project and composes the catalog work that serves your objective without inventing a backlog.
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How do I let a coding agent choose the most useful work in a project?
Say what you want and set the hours. Your sentence is the objective and there is no keyword router: Nightshift reads the catalog, inspects the actual work target, composes only the compatible contracts that serve the objective, removes overlap, runs finite work first, and uses at most one open-ended entry for the time that remains.
Choose how much authority to give
Review first completes a read-only survey and waits with an ordered proposal. Run directly treats the declared time and safety boundary as authority to select and execute reversible work immediately.
- Review first — inspect and compose, then wait with the evidence.
- Run directly — inspect, compose one contract, arm, and work.
- A sentence that already carries hours, an objective, and clear intent runs directly without another question.
- Automatic always requires hours.
Selection follows the project
Automatic Hunt reads the work target rather than assuming every catalog entry applies. It skips repository-only work in artifact folders, requires existing tools where a shift depends on them, and avoids duplicate findings. Quality, coverage, and dependency work never displace a feature or design objective just because their fingerprints were easy to find.
- Evidence before priority.
- Finite work before open-ended continuation.
- No manufactured tasks merely to consume time.
External authority stays separate
Direct mode can make strong reversible decisions inside the isolated work boundary and records significant choices. It does not silently gain authority to merge, deploy, publish, spend money, expose secrets, or alter legal and licensing policy.
Run Nightshift Hunt in Automatic mode for four hours, review first. Compose the work that serves this objective and show the proposed contract without starting it.Start with a bounded prompt
This prompt names the outcome and preserves Nightshift’s review boundary. Paste it into the supported coding host from the project you want to change.
Run Nightshift Hunt in Automatic mode for four hours, review first. Compose only the catalog work that serves this objective and show me the evidence for each entry.What this workflow does not claim
- Automatic selection skips catalog entries the work target cannot support and must not manufacture work to fill the clock.
- Run directly is execution authority inside the declared boundary, not authority to merge, deploy, publish, spend money, or expose secrets.
Evidence and sources
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