First I basically described the project. Since it's quite small, it's easy to give a small summary. Then I started out describing my goals, that I wanted to fix some user issues. Then mostly gave the issue description, some extra information (my idea of what might be wrong). 4/5 times, it made the correct decision and I didn't have to promt any extra. I did have to review the code and polish some minor parts though.
I tried to focus on staying on the subject. For example when I wanted to embed the themes to create a theme switcher ad-hoc and that was done, it could easily generate some new themes for me without any issue at all.
After every edit, I did a `git diff`, modified if needed (using vim), then ran the program and tested it out.
My experience is that it's always easier to fix things fast/correct if you already know the codebase and can give hints to the agent.