Guiding agents from script to codebase

Estimated time: 52 minutes

Overview

Questions

• How do you write a lesson using Markdown and sandpaper?

Objectives

• Explain how agentic AI coding tools work.
• Relate identified risks of agentic methods to practical safeguards that mitigate them.
• Make use of version control by implementing Git and GitHub.
• Implement supervision strategies for AI agents in coding tasks.
• Use sandboxing and permission controls for safeguarding agent actions.
• Create a Living Spec (GEMINI.md) to guide an agent.
• Extend the functionality of the script to convert it into a structured research codebase.

Introduction

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Spec-driven development. Requirements. Plan. Tests. Architecture.