Campaign
the arcA themed series that takes you from one skill level to the next. Surviving Your AI Intern walks a recruit from “what is an agent” to shipping reviewed diffs.
Think: a course.
TRAINING SERIES // AGENTIC AI // V.0.5.0
Survive the agent uprising. One directive at a time.
A comedy field manual for developers who now share a desk with an eager, literal, tireless intern named Agent. Free website. Optional paid Field Manuals for the truly committed.
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CAMPAIGNS4
DIRECTIVES8
HARNESS COVERAGEOpenCode · Codex · Claude · Copilot · Antigravity · Cursor
COMPLIANCE94%
Directive
the lessonOne short, practical lesson inside a campaign — the unit you read, apply, and file a Disaster Log against.
Think: a single class.
❯ Active Campaigns
View allSurviving Your AI Intern
RecruitSeries 1. The agentic-coding fundamentals across harnesses: think in prompts, delegate narrowly, review every diff, and keep a Disaster Log. Eight directives, free, available now.
Multi-Agent Tactics
OperativeSeries 2. Orchestrate several agents without starting a small war inside your repository. Includes real Disaster Logs from multi-agent incidents.
Agentic Workflows
OverlordSeries 3. Build loops that plan, execute, verify, and recover — with the Overlord keeping a deadpan eye on the metrics.
Tool Calling Deep Dive
OperativeSeries 4. When, why, and how to let an agent run actual commands. Spoiler: never on a Friday.
❯ Latest Directives
08 Directive 08: Graduation — From Intern to Tool Overlord's Guides — Series 1: Surviving Your AI Intern 07 Directive 07: The Disaster Log — Patterns from the Trenches Overlord's Guides — Series 1: Surviving Your AI Intern 06 Directive 06: When the Intern Refactors Your Architecture Overlord's Guides — Series 1: Surviving Your AI Intern
❯ Field Manuals
Browse all editionsThe Complete Field Manual
All four campaigns in one downloadable manual. Includes extra Disaster Logs and printable checklists.
- 8+ directives across all series
- DRM-free PDF + EPUB
- Lifetime updates
Series 1 — Surviving Your AI Intern
The recruit-level campaign as a standalone manual. Perfect for onboarding a skeptical team.
Series 2 — Multi-Agent Tactics
Advanced playbooks for running multiple agents without losing your main branch.
From The Intern
Don't know which harness your team uses? Start with the free Start Here path. It has a selection matrix for OpenCode, Codex, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Antigravity — without pretending one of them is magic.