Before You Arrive

The afternoon sessions are hands-on, so please arrive with a working coding agent you can drive from your own laptop.

1. Sign up for a coding agent

Pick one (any will work for the workshop):

  • Claude Code — CLI and IDE agent from Anthropic
  • GitHub Copilot — includes an agent mode in VS Code and a CLI
  • Antigravity — Google’s agent-first development platform
  • Codex — OpenAI’s coding agent

Most offer free tiers or trials; a paid tier will give you more headroom for the afternoon deep dives.

2. Verify it works

Before the workshop, confirm that you can:

  1. Open a terminal (or IDE) and start your agent
  2. Point it at a small project or empty directory
  3. Ask it to make a change and see the result

If you can do that, you’re ready.

3. Bring

  • A laptop with your agent installed and authenticated
  • A GitHub account
  • Ideas! The afternoon includes deep dives on projects you care about — a package you maintain, a workflow you want to automate, an analysis you want to scaffold.
Note

Questions or trouble getting set up? Open an issue on the workshop repository and we’ll help before the day.