Lectures

The client portal, a burned-out partner, and a task that for the first time has to be written by him alone. Why “describe it in words” is the job.

Six pillars of a complete task spec, written before the agent starts. Why “it’ll figure it out itself” is not a spec, but a hope, and why NON-GOALS are needed.

Feature, bugfix, refactoring, and reconnaissance are four task genres shown through the example of apartment renovation. Why the genre determines how much freedom to give the agent.

A planning mode that stops the agent before the first edit, and the three positions on the trust wheel: manual, plan, acceptEdits. How to turn it on and why.

Tommy is running a portal task on his own for the first time, from assignment to verification: he dictates the TASK_SPEC, catches the agent at the planning stage, and checks the result point by point.

Four level articles in one list: how to build a TASK_SPEC you can check, how to run a large task in stages, how four types of agent tasks differ, and how to choose a Claude Code permission mode.