Training Example: Laracasts – Review the Data, Give Your Score & Compare to the Real AI Evaluation

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[H1] Learn to Build, Not Just Prompt
A new era of web development is here. And, well, there's a lot to learn. Agents, workflows, skills... we gotcha! Start Learning Explore Series Laracasts is insane!
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Taylor OtwellCreator of Laravel
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[H3] Frontend Mentor Challenge with Laravel
With Simon VrachliotisIn this series, we take a Frontend Mentor challenge and build it using Laravel and Tailwind CSS. Rather than chasing pixel-perfect replication, the focus is on pragmatic Laravel and backend logic. Along the way, we explore carts, session state, semantic markup, and UI polish.
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[H3] Build Native Apps With PHP
With Simon HampWelcome to my CreatorSeries! I’m Simon, and in this series we’re going to learn about NativePHP and use it to build true native applications for desktop and mobile. We're not talking about web apps accessed through the browser. Your users will be able to install directly on their devices.
This is a big leap forward for the PHP ecosystem, and while it’s a real paradigm shift from the way we normally build with PHP and Laravel, we’ve worked hard to keep it familiar and approachable. So grab a warm drink, get comfortable, and let's start building!
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[H3] Vue State Management
With Sabatino MasalaState management is at the heart of every Vue application, but exactly how you manage that state can sometimes be...confusing. So let's explore your options! We'll start with the basics, like props and events, before moving on to provide/inject, custom composables, and Pinia. Along the way, we'll tackle practical, real-world scenarios. By the end, you'll know exactly which approach to use and when, so your apps stay clean, organized, and fun to work on.
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[H3] The Ralph Wiggum Technique
With Sabatino MasalaJoin me as I perform a deep-dive into the agentic looping technique known as "Ralph Wiggum." In this series, we’re not just building a script, we’re building the surrounding system that makes an agent reliable enough to collaborate with. We’ll work through permissions, sandbox rules, hooks, and safer ways to run in more autonomous modes.
By the end, we’ll have something much bigger than a typical demo: a working approach for spec-driven agent development that can run locally, in the background, or on a remote machine over SSH. Let's go!
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[H3] Defensive Laravel
With Mateus GuimarãesIn this series, we'll take a deep-dive into various strategies and tools that will help you write robust and reliable code. We'll explore core defensive programming concepts, from strict typing and immutable objects to leveraging value objects for more effective domain modeling. Okay, let's dig in!
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[H3] React, The Laravel Way
With Simon VrachliotisIn "React from Scratch", we built a "DevPups" app from scratch. Now it's time to take things further. Using that finished app as a base, you'll learn how to construct a React-powered app...the Laravel way!
You'll see how we can swap out fragile external API calls for Laravel's elegant backend, add real-time "like" functionality, support file uploads, and polish up our CRUD features with proper authorization. Along the way, you'll get comfortable with Inertia.js, the perfect glue between Laravel's backend strength and React's frontend flexibility.
By the end of this series, you'll have constructed a production-ready app that shows the Laravel way of working with React: fewer moving parts, cleaner architecture, and faster development.
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[H3] Vibe Coding Workshop
With Josh JohnsonHi, I'm Josh, the creator of Wender. In this series, I'll teach you everything I've learned about how to treat vibe coding like a craft... rather than a magic trick. We're not chasing weekend Airbnb clones. No, we're interested in practical workflows for building better applications using AI. You'll learn about writing better prompts, what to do when things go sideways, and how to review diffs like a pro!
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[H3] How to Build a Dev Team
With Matt StaufferResources for learning to code are everywhere. The only hard part is choosing one. But when it comes to learning how to lead a development team, quality resources are incredibly scarce.

This course fills that gap. It contains all of the lessons I learned while building the dev team at Tighten, a Laravel consultancy known for producing great work, but with an even better reputation as a fantastic place to work.
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[H3] Debugging Real-World Production Nightmares
With Jeremy McPeakProduction bugs don't announce themselves politely. In this series, we confront ten nightmare scenarios using NightmareMart, an intentionally broken e-commerce app, demonstrating how to debug calmly and methodically when everything is on fire.
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[H3] Blaze Deep-Dive
With Caleb PorzioBlade components are slow. Really slow. At scale, they quietly become the biggest bottleneck in your Laravel application. We discovered this while trying to make Flux as fast as possible, and the result is Blaze: a package that fundamentally rethinks how Blade components are compiled and rendered. With multiple levels of optimization, Blaze can shave hundreds of milliseconds off a page load, making Blade rendering up to 25x faster in some cases.In this series, we'll install it, benchmark it, build a toy version from scratch so you truly understand how it works, and then master every directive and edge case so you can squeeze maximum performance out of your own apps.
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[H3] The Laravel Workshop
With Instructor TeamBuckle up, this is the workshop you've been waiting for! In fact, this course is such a massive undertaking to the point that it required three Laracasts instructors. Join Jeffrey Way, Simon Vrachliotis, and Jeremy McPeak as we build a fictional X-like platform, called Pixl, entirely from scratch!Each instructor is responsible for one piece of the puzzle. Simon will tackle the static HTML and CSS build. Then Jeremy will convert it into a traditional and dynamic Laravel application. Finally, Jeffrey will demonstrate how to transform a server-side app into a full SPA. Let's go!
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[H3] Filament 5 in Depth
With Kevin McKeeFilament's powers have increased exponentially. Now at version 5, it's more powerful and capable than ever. In this series, we'll build a practical Roadmap app from scratch, using Filament for the admin panel and Livewire for the public-facing side.Along the way, we'll cover panel configuration, enum-driven UI, strict authorization with policies, and newer form inputs like ToggleButtons, Sliders, and the TipTap-powered RichEditor. By the end, you'll have a full-featured app and a solid handle on everything new in Filament.
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[H3] Customizing Filament For User-Facing Apps
With Shruti BalasaIn this series, we'll build a real, user-facing app called Booknest using Laravel and Filament. We'll begin with a fresh install and begin pushing Filament beyond the usual "internal admin only" setup that you typically see. It's capable of so much more.
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[H3] BaseCode Reloaded
With Jason McCrearyYears and years of hard-fought coding breakthroughs, distilled into sixteen essential lessons.In this course, I'll show you how to write code for humans, not just machines. Together, we’ll review powerful techniques, like naming, structuring, removing clutter, and spotting patterns. These aren’t abstract theories from a dusty book. They’re practical and proven habits that you can apply to your codebase right now. If you’ve ever opened an old file and struggled to understand your own code, this course was made just for you.
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[H3] Motion For The Web
With Simon VrachliotisMaster the art of modern web animation, from subtle CSS transitions to full-blown JavaScript motion systems. This series starts with the fundamentals of smooth, accessible CSS motion, then builds through keyframes, scroll-linked animations, SVG techniques, and the Web Animations API, finishing with powerhouse libraries like Motion.dev, AnimeJS, and GSAP.
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[H3] Everything New in Livewire 4
With Caleb PorzioLivewire 4 is a major release, and it's packed with features you're going to love. View-based components keep your PHP and Blade together in one file. Islands let you create isolated, independently-updating regions without the overhead of nested components. New directives like wire:sort tackle big things with minimal code. And a powerful JavaScript interceptor system gives you fine-grained control over every request.Whether you're upgrading an existing app or starting fresh, this series will walk you through everything new, from the fundamentals to the advanced stuff. Let's dig in.
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[H3] Running Clock
With Simon VrachliotisWelcome to "Running Clock," my new interview series where I fire off questions to top developers about their favorite tools, frameworks, and coding obsessions. The catch? We only have five minutes to get through all of my questions...and the clock is ticking!
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[H3] The Laracasts Snippet
With Jeffrey WayListen to the latest episodes of The Laracasts Snippet podcast, where Jeffrey Way casually chats less about the code, itself, and more about the developer behind the code.
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[H3] shadcn/ui Deconstructed
With Simon VrachliotisShadcn/ui is not only great for building beautiful user interfaces, but it’s also an excellent way to learn coding patterns and techniques to build a robust set of UI components or a design system. In this series, we will reverse-engineer the code generated by shadcn/ui to explore various composition patterns and styling techniques.
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[H3] The TALL Developer
With Shruti BalasaIn this course, you'll learn how to build full-stack web applications using the TALL stack — Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire. These four tools work incredibly well together and will help you construct modern, interactive websites without writing too much JavaScript. To illustrate these tools, let's build a simple, yet fully functional job board application using the TALL stack.
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[H3] Watch Me AI the UI
With Jeffrey WayIn this workshop, come along as I upgrade the visual design of our Laracasts team dashboard. As you'll see, design work can sometimes be a bit tricky to orchestrate. Can AI properly evaluate a screenshot and convert it to CSS? Well, yes...and no! But luckily, we have a variety of techniques we can use to increase our odds of success. Let's go!
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[H3] Learn Laravel Forge
With Matt StaufferIn this series, long-time Laravel Forge advocate Matt Stauffer will teach you how to become a Forge power user. Of course, you'll learn how to provision servers in seconds, but you'll also learn about zero-downtime deployments, processes, queues, securing sites with SSL, database backups, networks, and more!Each episode is bite-sized, so feel free to jump around to the topic that interests you most. Let's go!
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[H3] So You Want to Build an Agent
With Jeffrey WayYou're likely using an AI agent every day at this point, but do you truly understand how it works under the hood? What separates an agent from a general chat? What's a tool? How do we provide the loop for executing these tools? In this series, we'll demystify some of these concepts by building a basic agent that is capable of interacting with your file system and triggering tools.
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[H3] Eloquent Relationships Deep Dive
With Jeremy McPeakIn this series, we'll unlock the full power of Eloquent relationships, from the basics of hasOne and belongsToMany to polymorphic magic and performance tuning. Whether you're buil

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Episodes18 Run Time2h 45m DifficultyIntermediate Last UpdatedJan 15, 2026 VersionLatest Play Series
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The Basics (2)
[H4] Hello, Junie. Hello, Agent.
12m 38sLet's go! We'll begin by setting up JetBrains AI within Phpstorm. We'll then use it to explore and modify the demo "Laravel Workshop" codebase. Along the way, we'll distinguish between chat and agents, we'll generate a project guidelines.md file so Junie or Claude understands our conventions.
[H4] Laravel Boost is a Must
10m 22sLet's pull in the incredible Laravel Boost package to teach your AI agent how things should be done in your application. This package also includes an MCP server along with a variety of tools to expedite common actions and lookups in your codebase.Guidelines and Prompting (2)
[H4] Nip it in the Bud
5m 11sMy next tip for you is to "nip it in the bud." Never let AI drift away from your project's conventions. Let me show you what I mean!
[H4] Prompting Essentials
10m 50sPrompting is a surprisingly big topic. But let's focus on just three prompting patterns to get you up and running.Agent Workflow (3)
[H4] Vibe Coding Workshop
13m 51sLet me introduce you to vibe coding by building a peculiar little website that needs to be built. But I don't have the time to build it by hand, and I certainly don't care about the code in this case.
[H4] Developer-Driven AI
17m 59sWhen working with AI, I prefer a more developer-driven approach. I want to work with the agent every step of the way. I design the plan, I choose the interface, and the agent works with me to implement it.
[H4] Use Context7 For Up-to-Date Documentation
4m 53sLLMs often guess or fetch wildly outdated information. If I'm working with a particular version of a package or tool, I wish I could provide the agent with the most up-to-date documentation available. That's what Context7 allows for! Let me show you.Commands, Skills, Agents? (6)
[H4] Claude Commands Explained
7m 48sThink of a command as a trigger: "do this thing." If you'd like a parallel to Laravel, the closest equivalent is an Artisan command. However, of course, Claude commands are not code. They're Markdown files!
[H4] PhpStorm Prompt Library
3m 03sNext up, I'll show you how to use PhpStorm's prompt library to upgrade a component from the Vue 2 Options API to the Vue 3 Composition API with TypeScript. We'll create a custom prompt and run it on any file selection.
[H4] Claude Skills Explained
12m 15sClaude skills are like field guides for your codebase. They're your way of telling the agent, "This is how we handle things in these parts!"
[H4] Laravel's Code Simplifier Agent
5m 05sTaylor Otwell recently made a port of the popular code simplifier agent, but optimized for Laravel development. Let's pull it in, and give it a go.
[H4] Claude Subagents Explained
15m 49sCommands, skills, subagents? It gets confusing pretty quickly! Let's make it clear by building a subagent that runs in isolation so that it doesn't clog up your main context window.
[H4] Let Your Agent Use Chrome
3m 25sHave you ever asked an agent to perform a bit of work, it completes it, and then you test it out in the browser: blank screen! If only your agent could visit the page itself to confirm that things are functioning properly. Hmm...Developer Workflow (5)
[H4] Ask AI to Edit a GitHub PR
5m 02sWouldn't it be neat if we could @mention AI and request that it make changes to a PR...even from our phones? Well, you can! It's easy.
[H4] Get the Plan Right. Seriously.
3m 58sAfter endless mistakes, I've learned that it's essential that you get the plan just right before you unleash the agent on your codebase. Go back and forth multiple times. Have it interview you. Get it right!
[H4] The Debate is Over. Testing is a Must.
7m 09sThere was a time, long ago, when developers couldn't decide on the value of tests. Are they necessary, or are they a waste of time. Well - that debate is over. If you're leveraging AI agents, a full test suite is a requirement. You have to do it.
[H4] Worktrees, Agents, Peas, and Carrots
15m 25sGit worktrees allow your agents to work on multiple tasks simultaneously without creating collisions in your code. Each agent gets its own workspace.
[H4] The Ralph Wiggum Technique Explained
10m 45sThis next technique I'm about to share with you...is wild! A definition won't do. You need to see this in action.
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[H3] The Ralph Wiggum Technique
With Sabatino MasalaJoin me as I perform a deep-dive into the agentic looping technique known as "Ralph Wiggum." In this series, we’re not just building a script, we’re building the surrounding system that makes an agent reliable enough to collaborate with. We’ll work through permissions, sandbox rules, hooks, and safer ways to run in more autonomous modes.
By the end, we’ll have something much bigger than a typical demo: a working approach for spec-driven agent development that can run locally, in the background, or on a remote machine over SSH. Let's go!
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[H3] So You Want to Build an Agent
With Jeffrey WayYou're likely using an AI agent every day at this point, but do you truly understand how it works under the hood? What separates an agent from a general chat? What's a tool? How do we provide the loop for executing these tools? In this series, we'll demystify some of these concepts by building a basic agent that is capable of interacting with your file system and triggering tools.
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[H3] The Batteries-Included AI Toolkit
With Jeremy McPeakThe Laravel AI SDK is a first-party toolkit for adding AI features to your applications. Using a helpdesk app as our playground, you’ll learn structured output, chat with memory, streaming, tool use, retrieval, and everything else you need to build AI features that are reliable, testable, and ready for production.
This is an incredibly powerful toolkit, and I can't wait to show you what you can build. Let's get going!
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[H3] Watch Me AI the UI
With Jeffrey WayIn this workshop, come along as I upgrade the visual design of our Laracasts team dashboard. As you'll see, design work can sometimes be a bit tricky to orchestrate. Can AI properly evaluate a screenshot and convert it to CSS? Well, yes...and no! But luckily, we have a variety of techniques we can use to increase our odds of success. Let's go!
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[H3] AI Developer Workflows
With Jeffrey WayIt's a brand new world. Suddenly, we find ourselves less writing code line by line, and more writing plans, coordinating agents, and building workflows. There's a lot to learn. But we gotcha!In this series, each episode will demonstrate one potential AI workflow that you might adopt in your own projects. Check back often, as we'll be adding new episodes every month.

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[H4] I'm Done
Jan 23rd, 2026I didn't come to this decision lightly. It took me most of 2025 to reach this conclusion, but here we are. I'm done.
[H4] Most People Have No Clue How to Get a Programming Job
Oct 29th, 2025I've had the pleasure of chatting with quite a few business owners over the years. And when it comes to hiring, they're all in agreement: most people...have no clue how to get a programming job.
[H4] Programming Anxiety
Oct 3rd, 2025Think about the existential dread that so many of us feel? The feeling that, at any point, we may soon become obsolete and out of a job. Is there any truth to it?
[H4] Should You Learn Laravel Before PHP?
Aug 26th, 2025A question frequently pops up across social media: should I learn PHP before moving on to Laravel? You'd think the answer would be an obvious "YES!" And, yet, so often, seasoned developers will say, "Nope. Just jump right into Laravel." Let's decide if there's merit to that approach.
[H4] Where Does Laracasts Go From Here
Jul 28th, 2025In the last year, the way we program has changed dramatically. Perhaps, more dramatically than at any other time in my career. We can thank AI for that. So that begs the question: how does Laracasts fit into this new environment?
[H4] Is AI Going To Steal Your Job
May 9th, 2025In this episode, we dig into the subject of AI... and whether it's going to steal your job or not. Don't worry: no bait in this video. Just an honest conversation about where we are, and what it all might mean.
[H4] Big Fish Little Fish
Dec 4th, 2024There was a time long ago, before the internet, when each of us had the ability to be a big fish in the small pond. At least in some small way, that's true. But not anymore. And I wonder... what does that do to our confidence levels?
[H4] The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Mar 1st, 2024Tell me what you think of this. We all have certain stories about ourselves that we repeat, like mantras. 'I am the type of person who is X, therefore...' But, for all the reps, I'm not sure these are doing us any good at all.
[H4] Find Your Fit
Feb 14th, 2024It occurred to me recently that, if my job consisted exclusively of writing code 40 hours a week, I don't think I'd be a programmer today. I might go out of my mind. The secret, from my experience, is to find your fit. Figure out how to combine all of your skills into some unique concoction that gets you through the day with a smile on your face.
[H4] Juggle The Idea
Jan 17th, 2024If someone on your team presents a business idea to you, they've likely had it simmering in their head for quite some time. Don't be so quick to toss that idea aside. If there's such a thing as anti-patterns in business, this is one of them. Give the idea its due. Beyond this point, all episodes are available in audio-form only. Click here to continue browsing those older podcast episodes.
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[H3] Frontend Mentor Challenge with Laravel
With Simon VrachliotisIn this series, we take a Frontend Mentor challenge and build it using Laravel and Tailwind CSS. Rather than chasing pixel-perfect replication, the focus is on pragmatic Laravel and backend logic. Along the way, we explore carts, session state, semantic markup, and UI polish.
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[H3] Debugging Real-World Production Nightmares
With Jeremy McPeakProduction bugs don't announce themselves politely. In this series, we confront ten nightmare scenarios using NightmareMart, an intentionally broken e-commerce app, demonstrating how to debug calmly and methodically when everything is on fire.
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[H3] Motion For The Web
With Simon VrachliotisMaster the art of modern web animation, from subtle CSS transitions to full-blown JavaScript motion systems. This series starts with the fundamentals of smooth, accessible CSS motion, then builds through keyframes, scroll-linked animations, SVG techniques, and the Web Animations API, finishing with powerhouse libraries like Motion.dev, AnimeJS, and GSAP.
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[H3] How to Build a Dev Team
With Matt StaufferResources for learning to code are everywhere. The only hard part is choosing one. But when it comes to learning how to lead a development team, quality resources are incredibly scarce.

This course fills that gap. It contains all of the lessons I learned while building the dev team at Tighten, a Laravel consultancy known for producing great work, but with an even better reputation as a fantastic place to work.
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[H3] BaseCode Reloaded
With Jason McCrearyYears and years of hard-fought coding breakthroughs, distilled into sixteen essential lessons.In this course, I'll show you how to write code for humans, not just machines. Together, we’ll review powerful techniques, like naming, structuring, removing clutter, and spotting patterns. These aren’t abstract theories from a dusty book. They’re practical and proven habits that you can apply to your codebase right now. If you’ve ever opened an old file and struggled to understand your own code, this course was made just for you.

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[H4] What Is Ralph?
5m 07sLet’s kick things off by building a simple Ralph.sh loop and seeing how this agentic workflow actually works in practice. We’re not trying to make it fancy yet, just to understand why restarting the model with lightweight memory files like project.md and progress.md can be such a powerful way to ship work.
[H4] Improving Our First Ralph Loop
4m 00sNow that we have our basic ralph loop in place, let's make it feel a lot less blind by surfacing what the model is doing in real time. We'll move from the old shell script to a small Node.js wrapper that can parse stream-json output into something actually readable while keeping the same overall loop architecture.
[H4] What Is A PRD?
6m 59sNow that we have a feel for the onboarding problem, we’re going to step back and shape an agent-ready PRD that gives the model the right context, constraints, and success criteria before it writes a single line of code. The goal here is to front load the important decisions so our loop can execute with far less guesswork and a much better shot at shipping the right thing.
[H4] Creating A PRD With Our PRD Skill
10m 18sNow that we have our PRD skill in place, we are going to put it to work and see how a well scoped spec can drive an agent through a real feature build. Along the way, we will refine the generated plan a bit, feed it into our rel.js loop, and check whether the end result actually holds up in the app.
[H4] Running Ralph In The Background
9m 08sLet's take a minute to make our terminal setup a lot more resilient so we do not lose long running work every time we accidentally close a window. We will get comfortable with screen and tmux, with extra attention on a simple tmux workflow that lets us keep multiple loops and tools running in the background.
[H4] Permissions And Sandboxing
6m 46sNow that we have the basic permission flow in place, we’re going to tighten things up and make the CLI a lot less noisy by configuring what can run automatically. We’ll look at allow and deny rules, then move into the native sandbox so we can give the model some freedom without giving up safety.
[H4] Configuring Hooks
7m 12sNow that we have the sandbox handling the basics, we need to tighten up how permission checks work for mcp tools that live outside that flow. We’ll use pre-tool-use hooks to intercept requests, allow or deny them more intelligently, and even explore how a model driven reviewer can act as a second set of eyes.
[H4] A Word On Auto Mode
3m 30sBefore we jump into bypass permission mode, we should pause for a quick look at Anthropic's new Auto mode, since it overlaps a lot with the hook based approach we just set up in the previous lesson. We'll check out what it does well, where it still feels shaky in practice, and why we're still moving on to a safer way to bypass the permission system ourselves.
[H4] Bypassing Permissions Safely
10m 31sNow that we have played it safe with permissions, we are going to flip that around and explore what happens when we run in bypass permissions mode. The real focus is figuring out how to keep that power from becoming dangerous by leaning on sandboxes and eventually moving into a more isolated setup like Yolo box.
[H4] Turning Our Ralph Script Into a Flexible CLI
7m 40sIn this lesson, we're taking our simple Ralph.js script and turning it into a polished CLI that feels much more flexible and pleasant to use. We'll lean on Bun, OpenTUI, and a PRD driven workflow to sketch, generate, and test a tabbed terminal interface with support for things like YoloBox.
[H4] Agent Workspaces
9m 14sUp to this point, we have been letting Ralph run directly on our main branch, and that gets awkward fast once we want to keep coding without stepping on the agent's work. In this lesson, we will give Ralph a proper workspace of its own with approaches like git worktree and copy on write so our loops stay isolated, easier to test, and a lot less disruptive.
[H4] Tracking PRDs With Linear
9m 46sUp to this point, we’ve been managing PRDs in flat files, but now it’s time to move that workflow into Linear so we can get better hierarchy, richer issue context, and a smoother handoff to Relo. We’ll wire up the integration, generate parent and child issues from a PRD, and watch the whole flow run from tracking to automated pull request creation.
[H4] Human In The Loop
5m 44sIn this lesson, we're going to put some guardrails around Ralph by introducing a human in the loop workflow for the moments when the model is making important architectural calls. We'll let it propose a data shape for menu customizations, step in to review and nudge it, and then watch how that small bit of feedback keeps the rest of the feature on track.
[H4] Offloading Loops To A Remote Machine
5m 37sNow that we've seen Ralph running locally, let's move it onto a remote machine so we can keep our workflow available across devices and out of our laptop's orbit. We'll set up a remote worker over SSH, lean on tmux for persistence, and then use the built in remote mode to dispatch loops while still keeping a nice local control pane.
[H4] Experimenting With A Perpetual Loop
7m 17sNow that we've let this autonomous loop run wild, we're going to step back and look at what it actually produced and how far this experiment really got us. Then we'll start zooming out beyond Ralph itself and head toward the bigger idea of agent orchestration.
[H4] Beyond Ralph Orchestration
7m 59sNow that we have all the core pieces in place, let's zoom out and see what this can look like as a real orchestration system by wiring Linear, multiple workflow.md style files, and our own agent loops together. We'll build a more flexible take on Symphony that supports Claude and routing, so we can watch these ideas move from isolated experiments into something we could actually use day to day.
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