Workshop

Loop and Harness Engineering: The Fundamentals in One Day

Saurav Sharma

AI cost consultant, 6 years at Amazon

Your coding agents run on a schedule, stop themselves, and report the cost.

One live Saturday, 6 hours. You already use Claude Code or Codex every day. In this workshop you set them up to work when you are away from the keyboard.

We build it together in your own repo and on your own machine. At 4:45 pm ET your own loop runs on your machine, with a cost gate and a review sheet. It keeps running after class.

I run this setup every day. My loop ran 2,328 unattended jobs between Nov 7 and Nov 10, 2026, and 2,306 of them finished without an error. I also made the mistakes you will make. One script burned 1.63 million tokens ($8.92) on work my session had already done. Bedrock calls cost me $47.53 before I added a gate. You get the gates I built after each mistake.

You get the recording and the repo. Each class has a limit of 25 seats.

Founding cohort rate: $349 instead of $449. These are the first dates, so the price is lower. In return, I ask for your honest feedback after the day.

Join once, come back free: you can join any later date at no cost, when a seat is open. Email me and I add you.

What you’ll learn

At 4:45 pm ET your own loop runs on your machine, with a cost gate and a review sheet, and it keeps running after class.

  • Write an agent instructions file (AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md) that fits on one screen, and a handover file.

  • Add one hook that blocks a mistake you already made, and a guard that stops paid API calls.

  • Set up a schedule, a job queue, and a worker with launchd or cron.

  • Run one agent task that writes one findings file while you are away.

  • Add an allowance check that runs before each job.

  • Know in one sentence what the terms of your plan allow, and when to use an API key with a dollar cap.

  • Read one night of agent output in 10 minutes.

  • Use a blind grade in place of the grades the agent gives its own work.

Workshop agenda

  • 10:00 am ET: The harness file

    What the agent reads before it acts. You leave with an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md under one screen and a handover file, in your repo.

  • 11:00 am: Hooks and gates

    You leave with one hook that blocks a mistake you already made, and a guard against paid API calls.

  • 12:00 pm: Lunch

    A 45-minute break.

  • 12:45 pm: The loop

    Schedule, queue, worker, findings. You leave with a launchd or cron job that runs one agent task and writes one file.

  • 1:45 pm: Cost, stop rules, and plan terms

    You leave with an allowance check before each job and a stop rule. Anthropic says its plan limits "assume ordinary, individual usage", so we read your plan terms together.

  • 2:45 pm: Read the output

    You leave with a 10-minute review sheet and a blind grade that replaces the grades the agent gives its own work.

  • 3:45 pm: Capstone, your loop runs live

    A queue item goes to research and then to a draft, live. You leave your loop on for Monday. We end at 4:45 pm.

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I teach from my own code, bills, and mistakes. 6 years at Amazon.

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Who this workshop is for

  • Engineers who use Claude Code or Codex every day and want the agent to work when they are away.

  • Tech leads who own the agent setup and the token bill for a team.

  • This workshop does not fit first-time Claude Code users. Take a beginner class first.

Prerequisites

  • Daily use of Claude Code or Codex

    The class starts from a setup that already works. You need a paid Claude or ChatGPT plan you already have.

  • Terminal, git, and your own repo

    You run commands and commit to your own repo during class.

  • Mac or Linux (Windows through WSL)

    The schedule block uses launchd on Mac and cron on Linux and WSL. Optional: an API key with a dollar cap.

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Nov 28
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10am–5pm EST

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4 cohorts