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Understand safe autonomous coding

Build a practical mental model for agentic coding without starting from tools, repositories, or infrastructure.
Audience
Developer · Evaluator · Researcher
Expected time
About 15 minutes
Access
Public · 4 required artifacts
Finish with
Explain the boundaries between evidence, governed work, executable intent, agent execution, and external effects.
Learn the safe coding loop

Adoption contract

Use the declared artifacts, versions, and access boundary.

This contract names the artifacts behind the path so documentation alone is not mistaken for a working runtime.
Primary path

Understand safe autonomous coding

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Explain the boundaries between evidence, governed work, executable intent, agent execution, and external effects.

Orientation time: about 15 minutes

Required artifacts

The practical model

A safe loop makes five boundaries visible.

The model may reason inside each step. It should not silently own the rules that permit the next step.
  1. 01
    Intent

    State the outcome, constraints, and evidence before asking for implementation.

  2. 02
    Specification

    Turn important system behavior into input another tool can validate and regenerate.

  3. 03
    Execution

    Give the agent only the tools, budget, and effect boundary this task needs.

  4. 04
    Review

    Require an independent check before consequential state changes become accepted.

  5. 05
    Evidence

    Retain test results, generated artifacts, decisions, and refusals—not only prose.

01 · Learn

Start with the concepts

Understand the boundary and prerequisites before running commands.

  1. Learn the safe coding loop

    See why a useful autonomous coding loop separates intent, execution, review, evidence, and authority.

    Complete when

    You can identify the five boundaries in an agentic coding task.

    Open this step

02 · Do

Inspect the boundaries in their owning documentation

Follow the technical instructions in the repository that owns them.

03 · Verify

Check your mental model

Check an observable outcome before treating the experience as complete.