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Working With Coding Agents
A practical course for builders who want coding agents to become reliable collaborators, not unpredictable code generators. Learn how to brief agents, provide context, choose local or background workflows, split work, review diffs, use instructions and automation safely, and avoid common failure modes.
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Covers
- commissioning coding agents with clear goals and constraints
- context files such as AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md
- local, IDE, web, cloud, and background task choices
- task splitting, worktrees, subagents, and parallel review
- diff review, tests, hooks, routines, and safety gates
Does Not Cover
- model benchmarking
- prompt jailbreaks or unsafe automation
- vendor pricing optimization
- full CI/CD platform setup
- secrets management implementation
Working With Coding Agents
A practical course for builders who want coding agents to become reliable collaborators, not unpredictable code generators. Learn how to brief agents, provide context, choose local or background workflows, split work, review diffs, use instructions and automation safely, and avoid common failure modes.
View Course Scope
- Covers
- commissioning coding agents with clear goals and constraintscontext files such as AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.mdlocal, IDE, web, cloud, and background task choicestask splitting, worktrees, subagents, and parallel reviewdiff review, tests, hooks, routines, and safety gates
- Doesn't cover
- model benchmarkingprompt jailbreaks or unsafe automationvendor pricing optimizationfull CI/CD platform setupsecrets management implementation