Guides

These guides show you how to work with Syntic Code day to day. They go beyond installation and into the habits, files, and commands that make Amara a dependable teammate on real projects. Read them in order for a full tour, or jump straight to the topic you need.

What the guides cover

The guides fall into two loose groups. The first is about shaping Amara’s behavior before you ever type a task: how to store durable instructions in SYNTIC.md, how permission modes control what the assistant may do without asking, and how sessions let you pause and resume long-running work. The second group is about getting results: common workflows for bugs, features, and refactors, a library of reusable prompts, general best practices, and specific advice for large or multi-package repositories.

How to use these pages

Each guide stands on its own, but they reinforce one another. Good memory files reduce the number of approvals you have to grant. Clear prompts make workflows faster. Understanding sessions makes large-repo work manageable. If you are new, start with Store Instructions and Memories and Permission Modes, then move to Common Workflows.

Getting the most from Amara

Syntic Code rewards a small amount of setup. A short SYNTIC.md, a chosen permission mode, and a habit of scoping tasks tightly will do more for your results than any single clever prompt. The pages here explain each of those levers and how they fit together.