Agentic Engineering the Hard Way
Build every component from scratch. 65 lessons, 13 labs, 20 skill kits. No black boxes, no magic SDKs — just you, the harness, and the loop.
Production Systems. From Scratch.
Agent Harness
Own your harness. 6-level security ladder, verifier pattern, hooks architecture across 5 subsystems.
Software Factory
Systems that build systems. Agent chains, teams, P2P communication, depth-2 delegation.
Extensible Software
Pluggable, composable, swappable. Beyond MCP, tool design patterns, CI/CD for agent configs.
Always-On Agents
Run 24/7. Autoresearch loops, heartbeat execution, meta-agents that improve themselves.
Agentic Access
API-first design. Tool surface design, deployment modes, service connectors, MCP integration.
Tokenomics
3 levels of token value. Cascade routing, pass@k evals, the 3x cost rule, production optimization.
8 Modules. From Zero to Production.
Foundations
What agents are, harness vs model, decision frameworks, agent loops.
Architecture
Tools, context, memory, skills system, codebase patterns, workspace design.
Safety
6-level security ladder, hooks, verifier pattern, defense-in-depth, ACIP.
Orchestration
Multi-agent patterns, P-threads, F-threads, P2P, CEO Board, domain locking.
Production
CI/CD for agents, shadow deploys, observability, rollback, 5-tool stack.
Economics
Model pricing, cascade routing, pass@k evals, cost optimization per session.
Advanced
Autoresearch, meta-agents, beyond MCP, always-on employee patterns.
Capstone
Build production multi-agent system. Brand Monitor, CEO Board, or Code Review Pipeline.
What Engineers Are Saying
Built by an Engineer, For Engineers
Artale
Founder, FDSA Agency
I've spent the last two years building production multi-agent systems — from CEO Boards for strategic decision-making to Brand Monitor for always-on reputation tracking, to UI Agents that generate production Vue components. This course distills everything I learned shipping real agent systems, not toy demos.
Every pattern in this course — the 6-level security ladder, P-threads, cascade routing, the verifier pattern — came from building systems that had to work reliably in production. We build everything from scratch. No black boxes, no SDK abstractions. This is Agentic Engineering the Hard Way.
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Why FDSA vs Other Courses
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- checkMock LLM for offline work
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- closeClaude Code focused only
- check280 skill files
- check16 agent definitions
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- close$299 for full access
- closeNo structured modules
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- check_circle65 lessons across 8 modules
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- check_circle56 quiz questions
- check_circle20 SKILL.md files (7 kits)
- check_circleLifetime access + updates
- check_circleMock LLM for offline labs
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