Build observable agent systems
Move from host guidance to Harness, Substrate, and outside-in evaluation only when the work needs them.
Open this pathSAFE AUTONOMOUS CODING
Start with one small feature idea in Claude. Keep intent explicit, give the agent focused instructions, validate the system model, generate documentation from it, and finish with a scoped, critic-reviewed plan and visible blockers.
Designed for developers with a Git repository, Claude Code, and the pinned AEP and ESS binaries. The published eight-step golden path ends with one story still active; its optional aep drive follow-on is experimental and does not complete implementation.
ONE PRACTICAL LOOP
The first path is organized around what you are trying to accomplish—not around which repository happens to implement each boundary.
Make the outcome, limits, and authority visible before the model starts.
Give Claude focused Agent Plugins instead of one giant prompt.
Use ESS when system behavior should validate and generate deterministic docs or contracts.
Decompose and scope the work, then retain critic verdicts and unresolved decisions.
Keep the validated model, generated docs, plan artifacts, blockers, and refusals inspectable.
OTHER OUTCOMES
Product deployment, agent infrastructure, and repository reference remain available without competing with a first practitioner experience.
Move from host guidance to Harness, Substrate, and outside-in evaluation only when the work needs them.
Open this pathSee what is public, what is preview, and what remains access-gated before planning adoption.
Open this pathGo directly to service and platform operations without putting cluster detail in the beginner path.
Open this pathChange technical truth in its owning repository and preview it through the canonical Website shell.
Open this pathREFERENCE
Browse source-locked technical documentation or inspect the complete project map.