Paid guide · Edition 1
The AI coding workspace guide
Set up a code editor with an AI coding agent the way we run our own: one rules file every tool reads, secrets kept out of prompts, a worktree for every task, gates before every commit, and a person merging every change.
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Who it is for
For developers, and for owners building with AI.
Pasting code into a chatbot in a browser works until it does not. An agent in your own editor can read your whole project, run your tests and show you its work, and that is exactly why it needs setting up with care. This guide is for developers moving to an agent in their editor, and for business owners who build software with AI and want to do it properly. If you are an owner, you can follow the set-up step by step without knowing every command.
It teaches the practices we use in our own repositories, described as practices: one package manager and a frozen lockfile, secrets never in a prompt, a log or a commit, small pull requests merged by a person, and one careful check of the live page after every deploy. Every fact about a tool was checked against the vendor's own documentation in November 2026, and the sources are listed in the guide.
What is inside
Fourteen chapters, two starter files and a checklist.
- Why an agent in your editor, not a chatbot in a browser
- Choosing the editor and the agent
- Setting up the workspace, step by step
- The rules file: the one document your agent always reads
- Secrets: never in a prompt, a log or a commit
- Dependencies: one package manager and a frozen lockfile
- One task, one worktree, one branch
- Gates before every commit
- Small pull requests, merged by a person
- After the merge: check the deploy, check the page once
- When the agent is wrong
- The starter files, ready to copy
- The checklist
- Sources
A PDF of 16 pages, Edition 1, November 2026.
The starter files are an AGENTS.md rules file and a permissions file, ready to copy and adapt.
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If you would rather have a hand with your own set-up, our developer support covers it, quoted to what you need.