Running Agents Unattended — The 8-Lesson System
An 8-lesson mini-course for solo developers who want to run Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or Copilot for longer, less-supervised stretches without shipped work turning into shipped bugs — built around the independent-audit-gate pattern, not more babysitting.
Description
Every unattended agent run fails the same six nameable ways: silent wrong assumptions, overbuilding, instruction drift, unrelated file touches, bad handoffs, and nothing catching any of it before it ships. This course builds the fix in order — an operating manual that resolves real decisions instead of stating aspirations, task descriptions specific enough to check against, a genuinely independent audit gate with a structured rubric, a bounded rebuild loop, and a two-minute end-of-run check — so you can trust longer unsupervised runs without reading every diff yourself. Delivered as 8 lesson files, a worksheet per lesson to apply against your real project, and three fill-in templates (operating manual, audit rubric, task-queue schema).
What's included
- README.md — how the course works and the one idea underneath all 8 lessons
- lessons/01-why-unattended-runs-fail-silently.md — the six recurring failure modes, named and example-driven
- lessons/02-writing-an-operating-manual-the-agent-follows.md — checkable rules vs. aspirations
- lessons/03-task-queues-and-what-done-means.md — a minimal task schema and the 80%-done anti-pattern
- lessons/04-the-independent-audit-gate.md — why the same session can't grade its own work
- lessons/05-designing-a-rubric-instead-of-vibes.md — a structured, three-verdict review rubric
- lessons/06-the-rebuild-loop.md — fix-exactly-what-was-flagged discipline and a bounded retry rule
- lessons/07-monitoring-without-babysitting.md — the four-point end-of-run check
- lessons/08-shipping-safely.md — the ship-gate checklist and a staged-trust rollout plan
- worksheets/01-worksheet.md through 08-worksheet.md — one applied exercise per lesson, against your real project
- templates/operating-manual-skeleton.md — a blank rules-file skeleton
- templates/audit-rubric-skeleton.md — a blank independent-checker rubric skeleton
- templates/task-queue-schema.md — a minimal JSON task-queue schema with field notes
Delivery
Instant download after Stripe checkout. File: nightforge-unattended-agent-ops-course.zip