The outcome

Help teammates reproduce a reliable Devin outcome without copying a vague mega-prompt.

Devin is a autonomous AI software engineering agent. Investigating codebases, implementing scoped engineering tasks, producing pull requests, and standardizing repeatable work with Knowledge and Playbooks. This guide narrows that broad capability into one repeatable outcome, with checkpoints that keep the source material and your judgment in the loop.

Before you begin

Set the boundary before the tool starts.

Choose one real task, identify who will use the result, and decide what evidence or test will make the result acceptable. Gather only the source material needed for that task. If the work contains confidential, personal, regulated, or client-owned information, confirm that the platform and account are approved before sharing it.

Troiana principle

AI should make the work easier to inspect. If the workflow removes the source, the owner, or the review step, redesign the workflow.

Step by step

A workflow you can repeat.

  1. 01

    Choose a repeated task with a known successful session and separate durable repository guidance into Knowledge.

  2. 02

    Define the outcome, required user inputs, setup, procedure, specifications, forbidden actions, and delivery format.

  3. 03

    Write imperative steps that cover setup through verification while leaving legitimate implementation choices open.

  4. 04

    Test the Playbook on a low-risk example and compare its result, cost, interventions, and failure points with the original.

  5. 05

    Publish with a unique macro, review version history, and revise it when dependencies or team practices change.

Working standard

What good use looks like.

  • Use Knowledge for conventions.
  • State postconditions precisely.
  • Test every Playbook before team rollout.

Devin can use shells, browsers, secrets, integrations, and Git. Apply least privilege, scope sessions tightly, keep production actions human-approved, and review every code and dependency change.

Official references

Check the current product documentation.

Features, plan limits, availability, and data controls change. These official pages are the starting points used for this collection.