Shelbi's docs are built to be read by agents as well as people. Every page is available as clean markdown (append .md to any docs URL). The index lives at /llms.txt, and the entire corpus is one file at /llms-full.txt. This page collects prompts that put those artifacts to work.

The prompts

Copy one, fill in the bracketed placeholders, and paste it into your agent. Each prompt points the agent at the docs so it works from the source of truth rather than guessing.

Learn Shelbi from its docs

Get your agent up to speed before you ask it anything else.

Set up my first Shelbi project

Install Shelbi and configure this repository, with the docs as the source of truth.

Design a custom workflow for my team

Map your existing git branching model onto a Shelbi workflow.

Enable Zen Mode safely

Add the local checks Zen Mode needs, then turn it on.

Debug my Shelbi setup

Hand your agent the docs and your config so it can diagnose the problem.

Using them with your agent

The prompts above work in any agent that can fetch a URL. These notes wire the docs in a little more permanently for the two most common setups.

Claude Code (CLAUDE.md)

Claude Code reads a CLAUDE.md file at the root of your project at the start of every session. Add a pointer to Shelbi's docs so it always knows where to look:

## Shelbi
 
This project is orchestrated with Shelbi. When you need to know how Shelbi
works, read https://shelbi.dev/llms.txt for the index, and append .md to any
docs URL for its clean markdown source
(e.g. https://shelbi.dev/docs/guides/getting-started/workflows.md).

With that in place you can paste any prompt above, or just ask Claude Code to follow the pointer: "check the Shelbi docs, then help me add a review column."

GitHub Copilot (#file)

Copilot Chat pulls a local file into context with #file. Save the full corpus into your repo once:

curl -fsSL https://shelbi.dev/llms-full.txt -o docs/shelbi-llms-full.txt

Then reference it in Copilot Chat and add your question:

#file:docs/shelbi-llms-full.txt
 
Using the Shelbi docs above, help me set up my first project.

Re-run the curl whenever you want to refresh the snapshot.

Your agent of choice

Nothing here is Claude- or Copilot-specific. Point any agent at /llms.txt for the index or /llms-full.txt for the whole corpus, and remember that every docs page has a .md twin. The same URL with .md appended returns clean markdown. Paste a prompt above and go.