Articles
By James L. Cowan Jr.
- How to write a COMPLEX.md by hand
The full COMPLEX.md workflow with nothing but git, awk, grep and a text editor: compute the signals, fill the front matter, write the four sections, wire it in. - What a COMPLEX.md is and why agents need one
Coding agents get instructions and project context, but no map of where changes are risky. COMPLEX.md is that map, computed from git history.