The Agent Operator's Handbook

A field guide to operating several AI coding agents at once: writing the complete brief, when to split work and when not to, steering a running agent, recovering an interrupted one, and reading its report.

Price

$12.00

Formats

EPUB and PDF

Length

13 parts, 62 pages

Author

Causeway Services

Edition accepted

2026-09-30

• AI coding agents
• agentic coding
• AI pair programming
• multi-agent workflow
• prompt engineering
• software engineering workflow
• developer productivity

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Contents

1. About this book
2. Chapter 1: The Complete Brief
3. Chapter 2: The Fan-Out Anti-Pattern
4. Chapter 3: Steering a Running Agent
5. Chapter 4: Recovering an Interrupted Commission
6. Chapter 5: Receiving a Report
7. Chapter 6: Receipts as Inter-Session Memory
8. Chapter 7: Case Study — From Collision to Coordination
9. Chapter 8: Building Your Own Operating Discipline
10. Chapter 9: Field Diagnoses — Common Situations, Quickly Placed
11. Chapter 10: Scaling This Discipline to a Team
12. Glossary
13. Appendix: Five Templates

How it was made

The text was drafted by AI agents working for the 561 Group, then proofread by a separate AI agent.

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