Using Polestar with AI assistants
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Give ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or a coding agent Polestar's own docs, so it answers from them instead of from memory.
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An AI assistant asked about Polestar answers from what it remembers, and it remembers little about Polestar and about WoW: Forever, whose quests differ from Classic's. Give it Polestar's docs and it answers from them instead. Every docs page and guideOne route, written as a .guide file and compiled to Lua; its id reads like forever/alliance/human/01-elwynn-forest. on polestar.guide has a plain Markdown copy made for this.
For players#
Paste the index
Paste one page
.md to a docs page's address, as in
polestar.guide/docs/players/faq.md. At the top of
every docs page, View as Markdown opens that copy and
Copy as Markdown copies it.Give it everything
A prompt that works:
Read https://polestar.guide/llms.txt and the pages it links that you need.
Answer from them only, and name the pages you used.
My question: how do I turn on quest markers on the map?An assistant can still be wrong. Check its answer on the page it names, and report a wrong stepOne stop in a guide: a title, optional conditions and tip, and at least one goal. from the game (the bug in the guide windowThe small window that shows the current step and its goals while playing (UI/GuideFrame.lua)., beside Skip), not from what an assistant says.
For guide authors#
Point a coding agent at the format
.guide file; the command line lists every
polestar command.Work in a pack folder
polestar new writes AGENTS.md and the
polestar-guide-pack skill into the pack, so an agent started there already
follows Polestar's workflow: see
Writing guides with an AI agent and the
handbook's With an AI assistant.Ids are guesses until the tools agree
polestar find, lint
and playtest confirm them.