Make a recipe from a pattern
Patterns are ready-made recipes for common bigger jobs, such as an audit, a draft that gets critiqued and revised, or work split across parallel agents.
A pattern is a ready-made recipe for a bigger job. You fill in a few blanks, such as the topic or the files to work on, and Yardmaster saves it as a recipe you can run, change or schedule.
Make a recipe from a pattern#
In the sidebar, open Automation, then Recipes.
Click Patterns to open the Pattern Library.
Read the cards and click the pattern you want.
Fill in its fields, then click Save as Recipe.
Open the new recipe and click Run, as described in Chain steps into a recipe.
The patterns#
Validate then act: makes a plan, waits for your approval, then carries it out.
Red-team gate: writes a draft, looks hard for its weaknesses, then revises it.
Fan-out + consolidate: runs a list of separate prompts at the same time, then combines the answers into one summary.
Multi-stage audit pipeline: runs a four-stage audit (run, analyze, red-team, recommend) over a list of prompt files, then gathers the findings.
Design Overhaul: redesigns a web project's look, asking you to choose at the key points.
Browser research to report, Recurring browser report and Guided shopping (confirm before buying): browser tasks. Guided shopping stops for your approval before it adds anything to a cart, and never pays for you.
Before you run Design Overhaul or a browser pattern#
The three browser patterns need the agent browser, which is in Preview: see Let agents use the Browser.
Design Overhaul needs the design-overhaul skill installed in Claude Code on your computer; Yardmaster does not install it. Its first step can also look at real app designs on Mobbin, a design library that needs a paid Mobbin plan. To connect it, click Setup Mobbin MCP in Settings > Sessions, then finish signing in from the MCP Servers panel. Without Mobbin, the overhaul skips that step and carries on.
Related
- Let auto-replies answer your agentsAuto-replies answer or tidy up a session when its agent says something you expect, so work keeps moving while you are away.
- Chain steps into a recipeA recipe is a list of steps your agents work through in order, such as gather, check, then report. Save it once and run it whenever you like, or on a schedule.