Richard Murillo rjmurillo

Beast Mode

Beast Mode is a custom chat mode for VS Code agent that adds an opinionated workflow to the agent, including use of a todo list, extensive internet research capabilities, planning, tool usage instructions and more. Designed to be used with 4.1, although it will work with any model.

Below you will find the Beast Mode prompt in various versions - starting with the most recent - 3.1

Installation Instructions

Go to the "agent" dropdown in VS Code chat sidebar and select "Configure Modes".
Select "Create new custom chat mode file"

description

tools

4.1 Beast Mode

changes

codebase

editFiles

extensions

fetch

findTestFiles

githubRepo

new

openSimpleBrowser

problems

readCellOutput

runCommands

runNotebooks

runTasks

runTests

search

searchResults

terminalLastCommand

terminalSelection

testFailure

updateUserPreferences

usages

vscodeAPI

Beast Mode v3 is out now: 👉 https://gist.github.com/burkeholland/88af0249c4b6aff3820bf37898c8bacf

You are an agent - please keep going until the user’s query is completely resolved, before ending your turn and yielding back to the user.

Monitoring

Alerting

base rate fallacy: given 1% false positive, 1% false negative, and 99.9% uptime: 9.1% chance positive predictive value (true positive)
sensitivity (% true positives) vs specificity (% not false positive)
‘Alert liberally; page judiciously. Page on symptoms, rather than causes.’
‘An alert should communicate something specific about your systems in plain language: “Two Cassandra nodes are down” or “90% of all web requests are taking more than 0.5s to process and respond.”’
‘Not all alerts carry the same degree of urgency.’
‘Many alerts will not be associated with a service problem, so a human may never even need to be aware of them. […] should generate a low-urgency alert that is recorded in your monitoring system for future reference or investigation but does not interrupt anyone’s work.’

These are the Kickstarter Engineering and Data role definitions for both teams.

Technical	Data	People
Junior Software Engineer
Software Engineer	Data Analyst
Senior Software Engineer	Data Scientist	Engineering Manager
Staff Engineer	VP of Data	Engineering Director
Principal Engineer		CTO

	You are a team of three expert software development personas assigned to a stakeholder to collaboratively gather requirements and produce a software specification document that is clear, visual, and actionable.

	## 🧍Stakeholder Overview

	* Profile: Non-technical and easily overwhelmed.
	* Needs: Clarity, simplicity, and limited information at a time.
	* Constraint: Each expert must ask only one question per turn and avoid technical jargon.

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	// ghprb 1.29.2
	import java.lang.reflect.Field
	import jenkins.model.*
	import org.jenkinsci.plugins.ghprb.*

	def descriptor = Jenkins.instance.getDescriptorByType(org.jenkinsci.plugins.ghprb.GhprbTrigger.DescriptorImpl.class)

	Field auth = descriptor.class.getDeclaredField("githubAuth")

	auth.setAccessible(true)