Agentic-SDD: Giving Claude Code Agents a Real Engineering Process

Agentic-SDD is a Claude Code plugin that gates coding agents through a six-stage require→plan→analyze→implement→verify→fix pipeline with on-disk status, specialist agents, and a bundled knowledge-search engine.

Tutorial · AI Agents · Software Engineering · Developer Tools · Programming

Building ambient agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: From event-driven signals to human-in-the-loop workflows

Ambient agents respond to events such as an Amazon S3 upload, a schedule, or an alert instead of waiting for a chat prompt. This post walks through building framework-agnostic ambient agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore using Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, and Amazon DynamoDB, with a single ask_human tool and a Jobs page for human-in-the-loop review.

Tutorial · AI Agents · Infrastructure · Tutorials · Developer Tools

Building Production-Ready AI Agents with Spring AI, Guardrails, Evaluation, Observability, and Human-in-the-Loop

A Spring AI tutorial on hardening agents for production: guardrails, evaluation loops, observability, tool authorization, and human-in-the-loop approval beyond a basic MCP-connected demo.

Tutorial · AI Agents · Tutorials · Programming · Software Engineering

Engineer-Led, AI-Assisted: A Practical Workflow for Building Software

Nathan Pickard describes an engineer-led, AI-assisted software workflow covering planning, development, testing, code review, and context management—arguing AI depends on engineering judgment rather than replacing it.

Tutorial · AI · Software Engineering · AI Agents · Developer Tools

Why updatedInput in a PreToolUse Hook Doesn’t Rewrite the Command

A deep dive into Claude Code PreToolUse hooks: why returning updatedInput does not rewrite the shell command, and how permission decisions actually work.

Tutorial · AI Agents · Developer Tools · LLMs · Programming

Your Type Guard Can Silently Drift from Your TypeScript Type

TypeScript type guards can quietly diverge from the type they claim to check—rejecting valid data loudly or accepting invalid data silently. Why drift happens and how to keep guards in sync.

Tutorial · Programming · Web Development · Developer Tools

I Got Tired of Vibe Coding, So I Rebuilt the SDLC as Twelve Agent Skills

Zeeshan Hanif open-sources a twelve-skill agent kit that turns vibe coding into a disciplined pipeline—from requirements interview to deployed, verified software with decisions traced on disk.

Tutorial · AI Agents · Programming · Software Engineering · Open Source

Model Context Protocol with Spring AI, Building MCP Clients and Servers in Java

Ayush Shrivastava walks through building MCP clients and servers with Spring AI in Java: tool discovery, protocol basics, and wiring MCP into agentic Spring applications beyond a basic demo.

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How I Test MCP Tools and MCP Apps

An MCP tool can pass normal tests and still fail when an agent tries to use it. The implementation may be correct, but the model may choose the wrong tool. It may send the wrong arguments. The tool description may be too vague.

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Is my agent secure?

Benoît Devilliers hardens a Hermes assistant for client data: Tailscale-only VPS, least-privilege bot accounts, spending caps, per-user agents, and Infisical Agent Vault so credentials never sit in the model context.

Tutorial · Security · AI Agents · Infrastructure · Engineering

Giving Your Home AI Agent Real Tools: MCP Servers on a Mac mini M6

A walkthrough of the MCP servers James M runs on a Mac mini M6—filesystem, email, calendar, notes, home automation—and the permission choices that keep an always-on home agent from becoming a liability.

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