# StellarFirm Blog

> Guides for the agentic world: how AI agent assistants work, tips for StellarFirm and other agent tools from their official docs, and copy-ready prompts.

Every post is also served as Markdown: add .md to its address. All posts in one file are at https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/llms-full.txt, and the RSS feed is at https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/feed.xml.

## Guides

Plain explanations of agentic AI and how to put AI agents to work.

- [AGENTS.md and llms.txt: make your code and site agent ready](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/agents-md-and-llms-txt-guide.md): How to write AGENTS.md for your codebase and llms.txt for your website so AI agents and answer engines can read them. StellarFirm is the worked example.
- [AI agent skills and subagents: fewer tokens, smaller models](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/skills-and-subagents-fewer-tokens-smaller-models.md): How skills and subagents beat one giant prompt: load know-how only when needed, split work into focused contexts, and route steps to smaller models.
- [AI automation ideas for small business agents, by role](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/ai-automation-ideas-small-business-agents.md): Practical AI automation ideas for small business, grouped by role, with copy-ready prompts for StellarFirm assistants and a longer list to read next.
- [Approval workflows for AI agents: human in the loop](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/approval-workflows-for-ai-agents.md): How to design approval workflows for AI agents: why writes wait for a human, what to gate, and how to set rules, with StellarFirm Approve as the example.
- [What is an AI agent assistant? A plain guide for founders](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent-assistant.md): An AI agent assistant does a job for you, not just a chat. Learn how agentic AI works and how StellarFirm assistants use Approve and credits.

## Platforms

Tips for the agent tools people use, taken from each tool's official docs.

- [Claude Code tips from the docs: CLAUDE.md, hooks, MCP](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/claude-code-tips-from-the-docs.md): Claude Code tips from Anthropic's docs: CLAUDE.md memory, permissions, slash commands, hooks, and MCP, with prompts you can paste straight in.
- [Cursor and OpenAI Codex agent tips: rules and AGENTS.md](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/cursor-and-codex-agent-tips.md): Tips for Cursor and OpenAI Codex from their docs: project rules, AGENTS.md, background and cloud agents, MCP, and review habits, with copy-ready prompts.
- [MCP explained: the Model Context Protocol guide](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/mcp-model-context-protocol-guide.md): What the Model Context Protocol is, how hosts, clients, and servers fit together, how to stay safe, and how StellarFirm uses MCP. With prompts to paste.

## Playbooks

Step by step plays for getting more out of StellarFirm assistants.

- [StellarFirm Coder: tips for your first week](https://stellarfirm.ai/blog/stellarfirm-coder-first-week.md): Get more from the StellarFirm Coder in week one: connect your code, write small goals, set house rules, read the diff, and copy-ready prompts.