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How do I explain to Windsurf what my app is about so it stops guessing?

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Every new chat I re-explain the app. Windsurf guesses wrong about half the domain terms (a 'lesson' is not a 'course').

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Pasted the same explanation at the start of each chat. Works, but tedious and I forget parts.

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leo_prompts · edited

Write a CONTEXT.md once: what the app is in two sentences, then a glossary. One line per term: "Lesson: a single 50-minute session. Not a course." Windsurf reads project files at the start of a chat (check that it's included in rules). Update the glossary when it guesses wrong; that's the whole maintenance.

The glossary does more than the description. Models guess words, not architectures.

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