LEMON AGENT

Start here · 7 short lessons

Your first coding-agent session, without the leap of faith.

Learn how to give an agent a safe job, keep the important decisions, and verify what changed. It starts from experience with chat tools, explains the mechanics directly, and stays useful as your technical work becomes more ambitious.

Start lesson 1 About 30 minutes · progress stays on this device
Use the tool you already have.

The lessons teach one workflow. We adjust the handoff language to match your agent.

The course

Seven decisions worth practicing

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  1. 01

    From answers to actions

    See what a coding agent can do inside a project, and what still belongs to you.

    3 min · complete ✓
  2. 02

    Choose a safe first task

    Pick work that is small, reversible, and easy to check before you delegate it.

    4 min · complete ✓
  3. 03

    Write the brief

    Turn a wish into a bounded assignment with a goal, scope, non-goals, and proof.

    6 min · complete ✓
  4. 04

    Plan before code

    Use a short plan to expose assumptions while they are still cheap to change.

    4 min · complete ✓
  5. 05

    Watch the work

    Let the agent move while keeping scope changes, risky actions, and surprises visible.

    4 min · complete ✓
  6. 06

    Verify the result

    Ask for the smallest useful proof, then check the artifact instead of trusting a summary.

    5 min · complete ✓
  7. 07

    Review and save

    Review the diff, remove surprises, and leave a checkpoint the next session can understand.

    4 min · complete ✓

After the course

Keep the field manual nearby.

Go deeper on verification, Git, durable agent instructions, CLI/API/MCP choices, reusable skills, and small deterministic tools.

Browse the field manual →