TLDR — 52 Agentic AI Tips
One tip per day. From basics to production patterns. Built from 76 skills and 4 plugins.
Weeks 1–2
Meet Your AI Tools
10 tips
- 1 The Three Tools You Need to Know
- 2 VSCode Chat Agent Mode: Not What You Remember
- 3 Terminal Agents: Claude Code vs Copilot CLI
- 4 How to Select an Agent: Three UIs, One Concept
- 5 Ask the Right Question
- 6 Model Selection: More Models Than You Think
- 7 CLAUDE.md: Your Project's Brain
- 8 Four Instruction Files: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, and More
- 9 @ Mentions and Agent Mode Context
- 10 Rules: Context That Auto-Loads by Path
Weeks 3–4
Context — The Secret Sauce
10 tips
- 11 Context Window: Why AI "Forgets"
- 12 What is a Skill?
- 13 Skill Frontmatter: The YAML That Controls Everything
- 14 allowed-tools: Kill the Permission Spam
- 15 Writing Your First Custom Skill
- 16 Skill Scripts: The Deterministic Helper
- 17 argument-hint: Making Skills Discoverable
- 18 The Coordinator Pattern
- 19 File Convention Over Data Passing
- 20 Chaining Skills: Building Pipelines
Weeks 5–6
Skills — Recipe Book
10 tips
- 21 The Dual Frontmatter Trap
- 22 What is an Agent? Two Formats, One Concept
- 23 Agent Model Tiering: Cost vs Quality
- 24 Spawning vs Running Inline
- 25 Parallel Agents: Three Ways to Run Concurrent Work
- 26 Permission Modes: plan vs acceptEdits
- 27 What is MCP? Works Everywhere Now
- 28 stdio vs HTTP MCP Servers
- 29 MCP Tool Naming: Three Formats, One Gotcha
- 30 MCP Secrets: Two Different Approaches
Weeks 7–8
Skills — Advanced
10 tips
- 31 Your First MCP: Chrome DevTools
- 32 Hooks: Event-Driven Automation
- 33 PreToolUse: Block Before It Happens
- 34 PostToolUse: Enrich After It Happens
- 35 SessionStart: Validate on Every Launch
- 36 Hook Matchers: Precision Targeting
- 37 Plugin = Skills + Agents + Hooks in a Box
- 38 Plugin MCP Registration
- 39 Plugin Settings: Per-Project Config
- 40 The Spec Directory Convention
Weeks 9–10
Agents — AI Personas
10 tips
- 41 Consumer Sync: One Source, Many Projects
- 42 AEM MCP: Query Content from AI
- 43 Figma-to-Code: The Full Pipeline
- 44 Three Levels of Autonomous AI: Review, Coding Agent, Pipeline
- 45 Bug Triage: Ticket to Root Cause
- 46 Pre-flight Validation: Don't Burn Tokens
- 47 Worktree Isolation: Safe Parallel Work
- 48 Token Budgets and Cost Control
- 49 Multi-Provider: ADO + Jira
- 50 maxTurns: The Agent Safety Net
Week 11
Plugins & Mastery
2 tips