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Bolt keeps adding features I did not ask for

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I ask for a date filter and get a date filter plus a dark mode toggle plus a rewritten header. Every prompt grows the app in directions I do not want.

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Wrote "ONLY do X" in caps. Helps for one prompt, then it drifts again.

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leo_prompts22 hours ago

Bolt fills silence with initiative. Give it a boundary it can check itself against:

Change only components/Filter.tsx. Do not touch any other file. If you think another file needs a change, list it and stop.

The "list it and stop" is the important part: it gives the model something to do with its ideas other than implementing them. Keep a SCOPE.md with what the app is not, and reference it.

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The "list it and stop" line works. Two prompts in a row and it only touched Filter.tsx. It did list four "improvements" I can ignore.

tomvibes 21 hours ago

carmen_v21 hours ago

On top of the prompt: lock the files you don't want touched. Right-click a file in Bolt's file tree and lock it; Bolt won't edit locked files. For a date filter I'd lock the header and layout, and the dark mode toggle can't sneak in anymore.

And when it still drifts: roll back to the last good version instead of prompting it to undo. "Undo the dark mode" is another change it can get creative with.

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Didn't know about locking. Header and layout are locked now.

tomvibes 20 hours ago

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