What Is a Coding Agent?
Distinguish a coding agent from a chat assistant, understand what it can do with files and commands, and learn the spectrum of autonomy.
Agents
How coding agents work, from the agentic loop and tool use to infrastructure applications and human-in-the-loop guardrails.
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Categories:
The Agentic Loop and Tool Use
Understand the plan-act-observe loop, how function calling works under the hood, and how an agent decides when its task is done.
Coding Agents for Infrastructure
Apply the agentic loop to real infrastructure work with Meshery and Kubernetes, and understand where agents add value and where they need supervision.
Human-in-the-Loop and Guardrails
Design approval gates, dry-run patterns, and permission boundaries that keep agents safe in production infrastructure environments.