Find improvement ideas with Prospector

Prospector is for people who keep a code project in Yardmaster. An agent reads the project, without changing anything, and writes up the improvements it finds, each as a strike with the problem, the evidence, a proposed direction, and a score for impact, effort and confidence. Each read is called a dig.

Open it from the sidebar under Productivity > Prospector.

Stake a claim and dig#

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   Click Stake a claim….

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   Pick the Project, a Cadence and a Run hour (local), then click Stake claim.

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   With the claim selected, click Dig now.

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   When the dig finishes, new strikes appear under Strikes, and one Inbox alert tells you.

Decide what to do with a strike#

Click a strike to open its Assay Report: The problem, Why it matters, Evidence, Proposed direction, Risks & unknowns, and the scores. Then:

• Start spec session: opens a normal session in that project with the whole report, told to ask you questions before it writes anything. It uses your Claude plan.

• Snooze 7 days: hides it for a week.

• Dismiss: drops it after you confirm, and Prospector never raises that topic again. To undo, open the claim's settings and click Allow again.

See how digs are going#

The Journal lists every dig, including ones that failed or stopped at a limit, and why. The cards at the top show open strikes, quick wins and this month's spend, and a banner points at the best high-impact, low-effort idea.