Free Lesson

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

60 min
Jul 27, 2026 5:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

In this video

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

Dan Gerlanc

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

Greg Ceccarelli

Greg Ceccarelli

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

Previously at

O'Reilly Media
Normal Computing
Pluralsight
GitHub
Google
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