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Harness Engineering, Part 3: One Use Case, End to End
Part three of the harness engineering tutorial: matching the harness to the model, what it costs, how to judge a different harness, and one complete use case you can copy.
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Harness Engineering, Part 2: Memory, Boundaries, and Proof
Part two of the harness engineering tutorial: what the model sees, what survives a crash, what the agent may touch, and who decides the work is done.
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Harness Engineering, Part 1: The Model Is Not the Agent
An agent is a model plus a harness. Part one of a three-part tutorial: what the harness is, the seven parts every one is built from, where the loop should stop, and which tools to give it.
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11 Repos That Changed How I Ship Code With AI Agents
A map of the eleven open-source repos behind the way I work with coding agents now — grouped into the three things they actually fix: how the agent works, what it knows, and how much of the loop you have to crank yourself.
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Loop Engineering: A Hands-On Guide to Agents That Run Without Babysitting
Most people use Claude Code like a chat box — prompt, wait, copy, fix, repeat. The next step is to design the loop that prompts the agent for you. This is the install-and-use walkthrough: scaffolding a loop, feeding it fresh signal, and the heavier autonomous engine behind it.
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Context Engineering: A Hands-On Guide to Memory, Knowledge Graphs, and Token Compression for Claude Code
Claude Code fails in two quiet, expensive ways: it forgets what it learned last session, and it re-reads your whole codebase to answer a small question. This is the install-and-use walkthrough for four tools that fix both — with exact commands and the order I'd add them.
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Skills Worth Stealing: A Hands-On Guide to 4 Skill Libraries for Claude Code
A skill is a reusable instruction file that teaches Claude Code how to do a task the way a senior engineer would. This is the install-and-use walkthrough for four public libraries — exact commands, when to reach for each, and how to write your own.