✨ Tricks for prompting Sweep

• 💻 Use Sweep Chat: Instead of using vanilla Sweep, you can use Sweep Chat to plan out the changes by chatting with Sweep, while interactively controlling which files Sweep should be looking at.
• 🎯 Be specific: Don’t just put “fix typos” or “fix the first error”. Sweep will get confused and probably crash. Put a real issue that you would like solved in your codebase. Oftentimes, this is the lack of tests, especially unit tests.
• ⚡ Use GitHub Actions! We highly recommend linters, as well as Netlify/Vercel preview builds. Not only can Sweep auto-correct based on linter and build errors, but it also helps with iteration cycles by providing previews of static sites using Netlify (which we use)
• 📁 Mention important files: To ensure that Sweep scans a file, mention the file path or name (src/main.py or main.py) in your ticket. Sweep searches for relevant files at runtime, but specifying the file helps avoid missing important details.
• ↩️ Reply to Sweep: If Sweep's plan isn't accurate, reply to the same ticket and provide instructions on what changes should be made instead.
• 🗨️ Comment on PRs: If Sweep creates a pull request with a few lines missing small changes, leave a review comment in the file where the change should be made.