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The Agentic Coding Playbook

The best model doesn't win — the best-engineered agent does. A compact, 22-page playbook on the four parts of that system: Skills, MCPs, Loops & Guardrails. Diagrams, decision tables, a ten-minute action step per chapter — plus copy-paste SKILL.md & RULES.md templates, the adversarial QA prompt, and a 12-point system audit.

  • 01 The Best Model Doesn’t Win — Why two developers with the same model get wildly different results.
  • 02 Skills — Teach your agent your conventions, your process, your gotchas.
  • 03 MCPs — Connect your agent to the browser, the database, and your tools.
  • 04 Loops — Stop prompting one task at a time. Build the system that prompts.
  • 05 Guardrails — Deterministic checks the agent cannot argue with.
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