Context Management Bootstrap Kit
A reusable framework for multi-agent AI development: four roles, briefs as contracts, and shared documentation—aligned with how Nimbus thinks about handoffs.
https://github.com/bertom/context-management-bootstrap
What this is
This repository is a Context Management Bootstrap Kit—a structured way to work with AI coding assistants without drowning in context drift. It ships four agent roles (THINKING_BUDDY, CODING_BUDDY, SYSTEM_BUDDY, CONTEXT_STEWARD), each with prompts and specs, plus workflows built around briefs as the handoff artifact between planning and implementation.
Insight into the repo
The layout mirrors what we use at Nimbus: intent lives in briefs (work/briefs/), findings from review live in work/findings/, and docs/ holds agent specs, rules, templates, and a read-only project-context/ for domain knowledge. THINKING_BUDDY clarifies requirements and writes the brief; CODING_BUDDY implements from it; SYSTEM_BUDDY runs health and context-integrity reviews; CONTEXT_STEWARD explains the toolkit and helps you adapt it. The brief is explicitly the contract between roles—same idea as our materialization pipeline.
The kit is tool-agnostic (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.) and focuses on role boundaries, documentation contracts, and catch-up flows when you edit manually.
Benefits
- Clear separation of “what” vs “how” — Requirements and code stay in different conversations, with a review checkpoint before implementation.
- Artifact-driven handoffs — Briefs and findings instead of chat-only memory; easier to audit and reuse.
- Collective memory — Shared docs and project context reduce drift between sessions and agents.
- Low ceremony to start — README and SETUP walk you through copying prompts and populating templates.
If you want a starter pack that rhymes with Nimbus workflows without our full stack, this is a solid reference.