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 techlo 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 company. One paragraph: what you build, for whom, and what makes you different. Paste it into every copywriting request.
• Your real figures. Prices, team size, years in business, projects you can show. If you don’t give them, tell the assistant to keep the sample values and list them for you to replace.
• The layout value. Copy it from the comment next to options.layout in the section file: “use the [VALUE] layout of the projects section”.
• 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).
• Prices and other numbers are identical in the pricing file of every language.
• customSlug has the same value in every language for the same entry.
• 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.
• No new colors like text-[#123456] in components. Techlo uses its theme tokens (bg-primary, bg-primary-soft, bg-accent, bg-theme-light, 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, project results, metrics, or prices 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 homepage, pages, services, projects, blog, and team. Everywhere else a wrong option value passes 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 build warns about the site URL. baseUrl in [site] ships as a placeholder and src/lib/integrations/siteUrlCheck.ts warns while it is one. Set your own domain.
• 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 its name is a key of sectionsSchema, the content prop the route passes, and the section file in src/content/sections/english/.” A named block, and a route’s content prop, override the section file (see How The Theme Is Organized). If the change is in config.toml, restart npm run dev.
• The wrong header shows, or the language switcher is missing. Those are props on <Base> in the page’s route file: headerLayout (one, two, three; default two) and headerPosition (fixed, static, sticky; default sticky). Layout three has no language switcher. The footer’s background comes from hasFooterDarkBackground.
• I can’t find a section’s content file. The older pairs aren’t named the modern way: Features.astro reads features.md, TestimonialGrid.astro reads testimonial.md. Ask the assistant which file a component reads.
• 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.”