Agent setup

Setting up an AI coding agent for your project

• Commands and Build Steps an AI Agent Can Run Safely
• The Local Files an Agent Writes to a Developer's Disk
• What an Agent Actually Sends: Reading the Full Request Payload

Agent prompting

Prompting and instructing AI coding agents

• How to Break a Feature into Tasks an AI Agent Can Finish
• How to Keep an AI Agent from Rewriting Working Code
• Prompting Patterns That Make Coding Agents Reliable
• How to Write a Test List Before You Prompt the Agent
• Sizing a Task so an Agent Finishes It in One Pass
• Choosing Between a Context File, a System Prompt and a Lint Rule
• Making an Agent Name the Field Behind Each Argument
• Prompting an Agent on Test Integrity: What It Follows
• All of Agent prompting

Agent testing

Testing and validating AI-generated code

• Test-Driven Development with AI Coding Agents
• Characterization Tests for Untested Code
• How to Review a Test List Before You Hand It to an Agent
• When an Agent Should Write the Tests First and When You Should