decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course
Learn harness engineering by building Claude Code from scratch. Free, open-source course: 8 articles, 6 videos, 1 codebase.
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A balanced, no-drama setup: some rules, some tools, nothing extreme.
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# review before running: this installs third-party code $ claude mcp add kitaru -- uv run kitaru-mcp --server http://localhost:8000 --mode standard $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.claude ./rig-building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course # inspect, then merge into .claude/
MCP servers are added to Claude Code at local scope; env vars are shown as YOUR_… placeholders — we never store values. Files are fetched with degit into a separate folder so you can review before merging.
$ claude mcp add kitaru -- uv run kitaru-mcp --server http://localhost:8000 --mode standard $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.agents/skills/manual-e2e-qa .claude/skills/manual-e2e-qa $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-1-terminal-arcade .claude/skills/demo-1-terminal-arcade $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-2-bug-hunt .claude/skills/demo-2-bug-hunt $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-3-repo-pulse .claude/skills/demo-3-repo-pulse $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-4-review-swarm .claude/skills/demo-4-review-swarm $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-5-sandbox-feature-pr .claude/skills/demo-5-sandbox-feature-pr $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/demo-6-article-kg .claude/skills/demo-6-article-kg $ npx degit decodingai-magazine/building-a-coding-agent-from-scratch-course/.decode/skills/grill-me .claude/skills/grill-me
This rig commits no guardrails. Here is the community baseline instead — the deny/ask rules most often found across all 6,974 rigs:
{
"permissions": {
"deny": [
"Read(./.env)",
"Read(**/.env)",
"Read(~/.ssh/**)",
"Bash(rm -rf *)",
"Read(**/*.pem)",
"Bash(rm -rf /)",
"Bash(git push --force:*)",
"Bash(sudo *)",
"Read(~/.aws/**)",
"Bash(rm -rf /*)",
"Read(./.env.*)",
"Read(.env)",
"Bash(git push --force*)",
"Bash(rm -rf:*)",
"Read(**/.env.*)",
"Read(**/*.key)",
"Bash(sudo:*)",
"Bash(git reset --hard*)",
"Bash(git reset --hard:*)",
"Read(.env.*)"
],
"ask": [
"Bash(git push:*)",
"Bash(git push *)",
"Bash(git commit:*)",
"Bash(rm *)",
"Bash(rm:*)",
"Bash(npm publish:*)",
"Bash(wget *)",
"Bash(git rebase *)",
"Bash(gh pr merge *)",
"Bash(git commit *)"
]
}
} MCP servers (1)
| server | source | est. tokens |
|---|---|---|
| kitaru-mcp · "kitaru" | pypi | 2.5k |
Skills (8)
manual-e2e-qademo-1-terminal-arcadedemo-2-bug-huntdemo-3-repo-pulsedemo-4-review-swarmdemo-5-sandbox-feature-prdemo-6-article-kggrill-me
Plugins (6)
squid@iusztinpaulcontext7@claude-plugins-officialcode-review@claude-plugins-officialcommit-commands@claude-plugins-officialkitaru@kitarucaveman@caveman
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