AI Workflow

AI Workflow

Skill level: Beginner

Two ways to work, depending on whether your assistant can open your project folder. Pick the tab that matches your tool.

• AI editor (recommended)
• Chat assistant

1. Open the whole taxo project folder in the tool (the folder with package.json), not a single file or the unzipped download around it. The tool needs that folder to find AGENTS.md and its own rules file.

2. Start the site with npm run dev and keep it open at http://localhost:4321, so you see each change.

3. Save a checkpoint. If you use git, commit. If not, copy the folder. See Editing Content Safely.

4. Ask for one change. Name the file if you know it. The tools listed in the AI Overview load the theme’s rules on their own. If your tool isn’t listed, or its answers ignore the rules, start your first request with “Read AGENTS.md first.” For a bigger job, add “Follow the matching recipe in SKILLS.md.” The Prompt Library has ready-made requests.

5. Review what changed. Every tool shows a list of edited files and the changes (“diff”). Check the list against the review checklist below before you accept.

6. Check the result in the browser, at a narrow window and at /ar/. npm run dev regenerates the config from config.toml when it starts, and picks up saved content changes on its own. Restart it after you change src/config/fonts.json, src/config/language.json, trailingSlash, or anything in [settings.multilingual]: Astro reads those only when it starts. Ask the assistant to run npm run astro-check, or run it yourself.

What To Tell The Assistant

The more of this you give, the less it has to invent.

• The file. “Edit src/content/sections/english/services-section.md”, not “edit the services”.
• The page. “The section under the hero on /about/.”
• Your practice. One paragraph: what you do, for which clients, in which country, and what makes you different. Paste it into every copywriting request.
• Your real figures. Fees, years in practice, team size, the qualifications and registrations you actually hold. If you don’t give them, tell the assistant to keep the sample values and list them for you to replace.
• The layout name. Copy it from the comment next to options.layout in the section file, or name the prop: “headerLayout="header-1"”.
• What must not change. “Keep every key, option, and the number of items.”
• The recipe. For bigger jobs, point to SKILLS.md, which most tools don’t read on their own: “Follow the ‘Add or remove a language’ skill in SKILLS.md.”

Review Checklist

Go through this before you accept a change.

• Text was changed in src/content/, src/config/, or src/i18n/, not typed into a component.
• Every language was updated: each language folder under src/content/, src/i18n/<language>.json, and src/config/menu.<language>.json (unless you turned a language off).
• Fees and other numbers are identical in the pricing file of every language.
• Keys, ids, and indentation in Markdown frontmatter, TOML, and JSON still look like the rest of the file.
• Named blocks use names that exist in src/sections.schema.ts.
• Any Markdown link written inside a frontmatter string uses the language-prefixed path in the French and Arabic folders.
• No new colors like text-[#123456] in components. Taxo uses its theme tokens (bg-primary, bg-secondary, bg-accent, text-text-dark).
• New or changed CSS uses logical classes (ms, me, ps, pe, text-start), not ml, pr, or text-left.
• No client names, testimonials, savings figures, credentials, or fees were made up. Where you didn’t provide them, the assistant kept the sample items and told you which ones to replace.
• npm run astro-check reports no errors.
• The changed pages look right in the browser:
  • at about 375 px wide and at 1280 px
  • in every language (the language switch, or /fr/ or /ar/ in front of the path). Arabic pages should read right to left

astro-check validates only pages, services, blog, case-studies, team, and testimonial. Everywhere else a wrong option value may pass the check. Only the page shows those mistakes.

When Something Goes Wrong

• The build or the check fails. Paste the whole error, including the file and line, and ask for the cause and the smallest fix.
• astro-check complains about the config. Run npm run toml:watch once: the check needs .astro/config.generated.json.
• The change does nothing. Ask: “Which file does this text come from on this page? Check the named block in the page’s frontmatter, whether that block name is a key of sectionsSchema, and the section file in src/content/sections/english/.” A named block overrides the section file (see How The Theme Is Organized). If the change is in config.toml, restart npm run dev.
• The wrong header or footer shows. Those are props on Base in the page’s route file: headerLayout (header-1, header-2) and footerLayout (footer-1, footer-2). The defaults are header-2 and footer-1.
• A new entry breaks the build. A new entry with only a title has to build. Ask the assistant to read optional fields with ?. or a default, and to keep any new schema field optional.
• The layout broke at /ar/. Ask the assistant to replace physical classes with logical ones, and to add rtl: handling for translate-x-*, transform origins, and gradient directions, which don’t flip by themselves.
• It keeps ignoring a rule. Say “Re-read AGENTS.md, section [NAME], then redo this.”