Build the Foundation: Your AI Context Doc Starter Kit
This is the companion piece to “The Workshop I Built Was Wrong.” That article explained why context docs stop working. This one gives you the structure and questions to build the ones that don’t.
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Before you start: what your AI context foundation looks like when it’s done
Most people build context docs the wrong way because they don’t know what they’re building toward. So let’s show you the destination before you start packing.
A working AI context foundation isn’t one long document. It’s a folder structure with specific files doing specific jobs. Here’s what that looks like:
