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SDD template project with copilot-instructions.md custom instructions and docs/ artifact directories for AI-agent workflow in SDPBL

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Description

A template project directory for Visual Studio Code distributed to each team to operationalize SDD in the course. "copilot-instructions.md contains the workflow and project-specific rules as custom in structions." AI-generated artifacts are stored in the docs/ directory, with done/, investigate/, and review/ subdirectories holding the corresponding reports, alongside specs.md and tasks.md and a NewSpringBootProject directory registered as a GitHub repository. Based on their observations, the authors report these templates appeared to help students smoothly initiate development tasks using AI agents, and that a 30-minute lecture and one-hour demonstration accompanied distribution.

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Context

Requirements

  • Pre-configured AI instructions (copilot-instructions.md), specification templates, and development rules such as coding conventions

Constraints

  • The study context is a specific Java/Spring Boot course with only four teams in 2025, limiting generalization per the authors

Target Learners

  • third-year undergraduate information systems students working in teams of three to four

Learning Goals

  • team-based web application development with Spring Boot
  • structuring instructions and specifications for AI agents

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Key Sources

  • Hidetake Tanaka, Hiroshi Igaki, Kazumasa Shimari, Kiyoshi Honda, and Naoki Fukuyasu. (2026). Practical Implementation Report on Introducing Spec-Driven Development Using AI Agents in Software Development PBL. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.30572
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title SDD template project with copilot-instructions.md custom instructions and docs/ artifact directories for AI-agent workflow in SDPBL
description A template project directory for Visual Studio Code distributed to each team to operationalize SDD in the course.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-11
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