Professional Agentic Product Engineering

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Learn this with an agent (the fastest way through)

You don't have to read this alone. The same material comes in three modes — read it, get tutored through it, or get coached while you work. Pick by how hands-on you want to be.

1) The Guide — guide.md

Read it — old school. This website (or guide.md) top to bottom, or jump to the tier your work needs — one ladder of eight tiers, simple → hard, every tip a concrete Instead → Prefer pair (the anti-example, then the fix). No agent required; best when you just want the reference.

2) The Tutor — CLAUDE.md

Turns Claude Code into an interactive tutor for the Guide: one small concept at a time (~7 min each), you do every rep in a scratch repo, and a separate quizmaster checks it stuck before you advance. Clone the repo, open Claude Code in the folder, and say hi:

git clone https://github.com/krivitsky/professional-agentic-product-engineering
cd professional-agentic-product-engineering
claude        # then type:  hi

It diagnoses your level and — with your consent — glances at your past prompts (read-only, local, nothing leaves your machine) to tailor every example to your stack and habits instead of a generic one. Best when you want to learn it by doing.

3) The Coach — agentic-coach

An ambient plugin: install once, then work in Claude Code as usual. It stays silent until it catches a learning moment mid-task, then drops one nudge linked straight to the fix — the thinking, not the syntax.

/plugin marketplace add krivitsky/professional-agentic-product-engineering
/plugin install agentic-coach@pae
/reload-plugins

Then just work; say coach me to ask it directly, or stop coaching to silence it. Best when you'd rather learn in the flow of real work. (Needs jq on your PATH.)

Harness-agnostic: the repo ships both CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md, so any agent that reads them works. No repo handy? Paste this guide into any capable model and tell it to tutor you one concept at a time — Connection → Concept → Concrete practice → Conclusion, tier by tier, not advancing until you pass.