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Make Your Repo Agent-Ready: Rules, Docs, Reviews

Hosted by Dan Gerlanc and Greg Ceccarelli

Mon, Jul 27, 2026

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Hardcore Agentic Engineering for builders who ship
Greg Ceccarelli, Sean Johnson, and Jake Levirne
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What you'll learn

Teach the agent how your team actually works

Encode your conventions two ways: soft rules in AGENTS.md, and hard ones it can't ignore, like linters and type checks.

Keep your project docs in sync automatically

Build a system that keeps your knowledge base current for you and the agents, so it never goes  stale

Verify agent work without reading every line

Stand up adversarial reviews, agents checking other agents, that catch bad work continuously so you stop  babysitting

Why this topic matters

Most agent failures aren't the model's fault. They're the repo's. An agent only knows what your context affords it, so  vague conventions, stale docs, and no real checks turn a capable agent into a confident mess. Fix the setup, encoded  rules, living docs, adversarial review, and the same agent starts shipping work you can trust. That foundation is where  Hardcore Agentic Engineering begins

You'll learn from

Dan Gerlanc

Co-Founder .txt (Outlines) • Ex-VP Eng Normal Computing • O'Reilly Instructor

Dan Gerlanc was co-founder and CTO of .txt, the team behind Outlines for structured LLM output. Over 15+ years he has  built and led engineering teams, including as VP of Engineering at Normal Computing and an engineering leader at  Ampersand, taught thousands through O'Reilly courses on Python and data, and hosts the Agents and Engineers podcast.

Greg Ceccarelli

Co-Founder • Ex-CPO Pluralsight • Data at GitHub, Dropbox & Google

I co-founded SpecStory and have built our products (open source extensions and Stoa) entirely by steering agents with almost no hand-written code.

I wrote about it extensively: the Beyond Code-Centric whitepaper, Goal Engineering, and 25 Patterns in Agentic Engineering book.

Before this I was Chief Product Officer at Pluralsight and led data teams at GitHub, Dropbox, and Google. I'm passionate about teaching what it takes to actually ship with agents: the process, mindset and actual techniques that work.

Previously at

O'Reilly Media
Normal Computing
Pluralsight
GitHub
Google
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