Agents and harnesses for intermediate learners

9 resources

• Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills

  by Anthropic

  Packaging instructions and scripts as loadable skills.

  Intermediate · claude · 2025-10-16

• Best practices for Claude Code

  by Anthropic

  Concrete coding-agent workflow habits: plan, verify, manage context.

  Intermediate · claude · date not stated

• Effective context engineering for AI agents

  by Anthropic

  Treats context as a finite budget: compaction, notes, sub-agents.

  Intermediate · any · 2025-09-29

• 12-Factor Agents

  by HumanLayer (Dex Horthy)

  Principles for agents that hold up in production.

  Intermediate · any · date not stated

• Agents

  by Chip Huyen

  Long-form essay on tools, planning, failure modes and evaluating agents.

  Intermediate · any · 2025-01-07

• LLM Powered Autonomous Agents

  by Lilian Weng

  Classic overview of planning, memory and tool use in agents.

  Intermediate · any · 2023-06-23

• Model Context Protocol docs

  by MCP project

  The spec and docs for connecting tools and data to agents.

  Intermediate · any · date not stated

• OpenAI Agents SDK

  by OpenAI

  Lightweight framework: handoffs, guardrails, tracing.

  Intermediate · gpt · date not stated

• Context Engineering for Agents

  by Lance Martin

  Write/select/compress/isolate taxonomy of context strategies.

  Intermediate · any · 2025-06-23