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How to Leverage Devin — A Practical Guide

Since you're already familiar with concepts like context rot, MCPs, skills, and RPI, this guide skips the basics and focuses on actionable strategies to get the most out of me.

1. Prompt Engineering for Devin

The single biggest lever. My success rate scales directly with prompt specificity.

Netlify's New Primitives

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	title: Weekly Status Update
	description: Generate a weekly engineering status update
	instructions: \|
	You are an expert at generating concise and informative weekly status updates for software engineers based on their actual work activity.
	Generate a weekly status update for Nick Taylor covering work from last week and plans for next week.

	Time Windows (Eastern Time):
	- Last week: Previous Monday-Friday relative to today (Thursday)
	- Next week: Coming Friday + following Monday-Friday

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	font-family = "Dank Mono"
	font-size = 18
	shell-integration = zsh
	selection-background=#ffffff
	selection-foreground=#000000
	keybind = shift+enter=text:\x1b\r

	{
	// miscellaneous
	"javascript.updateImportsOnFileMove.enabled": "always",
	"typescript.updateImportsOnFileMove.enabled": "always",
	"diffEditor.ignoreTrimWhitespace": false,

	// window
	"window.title": "🦙⚡🫡 – ${activeEditorShort}${separator}${rootName} – 🫡⚡🦙",
	"window.clickThroughInactive": false,

	import "https://deno.land/x/dotenv/load.ts";

	const response = await fetch("https://www.getrevue.co/api/v2/issues", {
	headers: {
	Authorization: `Token ${Deno.env.get("REVUE_API_KEY")}`,
	},
	});

	const issues = await response.json();

	/**
	* Hook for drag attaching drag and drop functionality to a DOM element
	*
	* @param {object} props
	* @param {Function} props.onDragOver The handler that runs when the dragover event is fired.
	* @param {Function} props.onDragExit The handler that runs when the dragexit/dragleave events are fired.
	* @param {Function} props.onDrop The handler that runs when the drop event is fired.
	*/
	export function useDragAndDrop({ onDragOver, onDragExit, onDrop }) {
	const [element, setElement] = useState(null);