The article analyzes why AI agents lose progress across discrete context windows, identifies two failure patterns, and presents a dual‑harness solution—an initialization agent and a coding agent—that uses init scripts, progress files, and Git to enable incremental, test‑driven development over hours or days.
This guide outlines a six‑stage, 17‑week roadmap for becoming a production‑ready AI agent engineer by 2026, detailing essential skills such as LangGraph orchestration, Claude Agent SDK scheduling, context‑engineering primitives, evaluation pipelines, and curated free resources while warning against over‑hyped frameworks.
This article chronicles three generations of production‑grade AI orchestration—from fragile Claude Code skill chains, through adversarial sub‑agent pipelines with explicit judges, to a deterministic Python state‑machine built on the Claude Agent SDK—highlighting how structured control flow, task splitting, and budget enforcement dramatically improve reliability over raw prompt‑driven workflows.
This tutorial walks through creating a full‑featured code‑review Agent with Claude Agent SDK, covering installation, TypeScript setup, the SDK‑managed agent loop, structured JSON output, permission handling, sub‑agents, session management, hooks, custom MCP tools, cost tracking, and a production‑grade example.
