A COURSE ON DIRECTING SYSTEMS THAT WRITE SOFTWARE
The Agentic Engineer
Roughly twenty hours from mental model to two shipped capstones: a production SaaS with a real RAG feature, and an Agent OS installed on a business. Specification, verification, and context design are the skills. This course trains them.
The map
- PART Pprequel
The Prequel: Fundamentals, Agent-Tutored
Everything the rest of the course assumes, taught with the agent as your tutor. The entrance quiz scores five areas and recommends what to skip; experienced readers skip it all. The teaching method is itself the first lesson.
- PART 02 lessons · ~1h
Orientation
Define the discipline and get a working cockpit: Claude Code installed, authenticated, and a practice repo that persists through Part 3.
- PART 16 lessons · ~3h
Foundations: How Agents Actually Work
You cannot direct what you don't understand. The mental model everything else stands on: the loop, the context window, the failure modes, and what retrieval is actually for.
- PART 212 lessons · ~5h
Claude Code Mastery
The complete instrument rating for Claude Code: models, memory, workflows, skills, subagents, hooks, MCP, plugins, headless mode, multi-instance patterns, and custom SDK agents. All facts written from live docs.
- PART 310 lessons · ~5h
Engineering Discipline: The Harness
Part 2 gave you the instrument; this part gives you the flight discipline and the harness that makes it repeatable. The course's spine, and its answer to building properly and quickly at the same time.
- PART 410 lessons · ~5h
Track A: Ship a Production SaaS
Build Briefcase, a client-portal SaaS, from idea to deployed product with a real RAG feature. Every lesson advances the capstone through dispatches you write.
- PART 58 lessons · ~3h
Track B: Install an Agent OS on a Business
The same discipline pointed at operations: install a working Agent OS on Meridian, a concrete 12-person marketing agency. Everything transfers to a paid engagement.
- PART 61 lessons · ~0h
Graduation
Consolidate the doctrine you now run on, audit yourself against both capstone rubrics, and get a blunt statement of what you can be paid to do.
- PART Aelective
Appendices: Mastery Electives
Mastery electives: deeper dives that extend the core. Take them when the work in front of you demands them.