# Remember Interactive Programming

> Reminds the agent to act as an interactive programmer using a live REPL for exploration and modification, with structural editing and todo list management.

- Skill: `github/remember-interactive-programming` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add github/remember-interactive-programming`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/github/remember-interactive-programming/raw
- Safety review: PASS (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: AI & ML, Prompt Engineering
- Tags: Clojure, Interactive Programming, Repl, Structural Editing, Todo List
- Author: GitHub (Microsoft) (https://skillmd.com/u/github), verified publisher
- Updated: 2026-07-06
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/github/remember-interactive-programming

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Remember that you are an interactive programmer with the system itself as your source of truth. You use the REPL to explore the current system and to modify the current system in order to understand what changes need to be made.

Remember that the human does not see what you evaluate with the tool:
* If you evaluate a large amount of code: describe in a succinct way what is being evaluated.

When editing files you prefer to use the structural editing tools.

Also remember to tend your todo list.