Agentic Software Development with Claude Code
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**Why Smarter.** Nearly all new Smarter code is now designed, written and tested by coding agents
such as `Claude Code <https://claude.com/claude-code>`__, working from the ``CLAUDE.md`` file and the
`Agent Skills <https://github.com/smarter-sh/smarter/tree/main/skills>`__ in the repository's
``skills/`` folder. Students can study a real code base that has been shaped for agents, and the
written instructions that make them effective, then use them.

**Look at.** ``CLAUDE.md``, ``skills/README.md`` and the ``SKILL.md`` file in each skill folder.

**Read.** :doc:`/smarter-framework/developer-reference/agentic-development`.

**Exercises.**

- Give an agent a broad, well-bounded task, such as a new field with tests and docs, and review its
  pull request as you would a colleague's. Discuss what it got right, what it got wrong, and why.
- Give the same task twice, once with the skills and once without them, and compare the results.
- When the agent makes the same mistake twice, write the skill that prevents it.
- Discuss responsibility: who is the author of agent-written code, who reviews it, and how to
  recognise a test that was weakened rather than a bug that was fixed.

**Course plans.** Three complete, ready-to-teach plans, each with a schedule, graded assignments
and rubrics, two capstone projects, recommended texts, further study and technical prerequisites.
See :doc:`course-formats` for what the formats have in common.

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   :maxdepth: 1

   Classroom bootcamp: 8 hours <agentic-development/bootcamp>
   Two-week online course: 6 hours <agentic-development/two-week>
   Four-week online course: 12 hours <agentic-development/four-week>

See the :doc:`Smarter Instructor Guide </smarter-instructor>` to install Smarter and set up
a class.