⚡ Stop Explaining Your Project to AI — Let It Learn with Vibe Kit

#ai #productivity #tooling #rag

You know that feeling when your AI assistant writes decent code… but completely ignores your style, naming, and structure? You spend five minutes explaining your setup before you even get a usable response. Yeah, that’s not productive.

So I built Vibe Kit, a CLI that helps your AI tools vibe with your codebase. No more essay-length prompts. Just smarter AI that already understands your project.

👉 Full docs and setup guide: vibe-kit-docs.vercel.app
📦 npm → @nolrm/vibe-kit

🧩 The Problem

AI tools like Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or Gemini are incredible at writing syntax. But they don’t know your architecture, naming patterns, or test style They hallucinate stuff. They mix tabs with spaces. They think your “checkout flow” is a PayPal button.

You end up rewriting half the code they generate. And that kills the flow.

💡 The Fix: Context Engineering

Instead of explaining your conventions every time you chat with an AI, teach it once, through structured markdown context. That’s what Vibe Kit does.

It sets up a .vibe-kit/ folder in your repo filled with markdown files that describe your project standards, architecture, and patterns. Every AI tool you use can read those files directly.

Each file becomes part of your project’s knowledge base. The next time your AI assistant runs, it already knows how your code should look and behave.

⏱️ Less Explaining, More Building

One of the biggest time-sinks in AI-assisted coding is repeating context.

Before you get the perfect output, you end up typing paragraphs like:

“We use strict TypeScript, React functional components, Jest for testing, and our checkout flow lives in /src/features/payments…”

With Vibe Kit, that context already lives in .vibe-kit/ markdown files.

The AI reads them automatically. So now, your prompts can be short and human:

“Add checkout flow for customer”
Boom. It already knows your stack, coding standards, and testing approach.

Less talking. More shipping.

🧠 Why It Matters

We’re moving past “prompt engineering.” The real unlock is context engineering. It’s not about crafting perfect prompts , it’s about giving your AI the right information before you even start typing. With .vibe-kit/, your team defines one shared source of truth: