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  • 107 sources
  • 11 chapters
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  1. 01The AI-Native Engineer7
  2. 02From LLMs to Agents31
  3. 03Context Engineering Fundamentals17
  4. 04Model Context Protocol19
  5. 05Spec-Driven Development2
  6. 06The SDD Workflow6
  7. 07SDD Frameworks Compared14
  8. 08Verification and Quality Gates55
  9. 09Agent Orchestration Patterns14
  10. 10Scaling AI-Native Engineering in Teams15
  11. 11AI-Native in Practice at Cogwheel1
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01The AI-Native Engineer7 links
  1. 01addyo.substack.com/p/the-ai-native-software-engineer
  2. 02en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
  3. 03loige.co/the-senior-dev/
  4. 04martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html
  5. 05openai.com/index/harness-engineering/
  6. 06www.youtube.com/watch?v=vif8NQcjVf0&t=7262
  7. 07x.com/Vtrivedy10/status/2031408954517971368
02From LLMs to Agents31 links
  1. 01aider.chat/
  2. 02artificialanalysis.ai/
  3. 03arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
  4. 04arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
  5. 05arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172
  6. 06arxiv.org/abs/2402.03300
  7. 07arxiv.org/abs/2404.06654
  8. 08arxiv.org/abs/2406.16264
  9. 09arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
  10. 10bolt.new/
  11. 11claude.ai/design
  12. 12claude.com/product/claude-code
  13. 13cursor.com/
  14. 14cursor.com/docs/cloud-agent
  15. 15devin.ai/
  16. 16docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/cloud-agent/about-cloud-agent
  17. 17en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
  18. 18github.com/features/copilot
  19. 19github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli
  20. 20github.com/openai/codex
  21. 21graphite.com/
  22. 22huggingface.co/blog/tiny-agents
  23. 23lovable.dev/
  24. 24openai.com/codex/
  25. 25openreview.net/forum?id=pwIGnH2LHJ
  26. 26v0.app/
  27. 27www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
  28. 28www.coderabbit.ai/
  29. 29www.figma.com/make/
  30. 30www.greptile.com/
  31. 31zed.dev/
03Context Engineering Fundamentals17 links
  1. 01agents.md/
  2. 02agentskills.io/home
  3. 03arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
  4. 04arxiv.org/abs/2307.03172
  5. 05arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
  6. 06arxiv.org/pdf/2306.15595
  7. 07code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices
  8. 08github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/how-to-write-a-great-agents-md-lessons-from-over-2500-repositories/
  9. 09langserver.org/
  10. 10learn.chatgpt.com/docs/agent-configuration/agents-md
  11. 11openreview.net/forum?id=R6q67CDBCH
  12. 12platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/agent-skills/best-practices
  13. 13pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2864034/
  14. 14tessl.io/
  15. 15www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
  16. 16www.skills.sh/
  17. 17www.trychroma.com/research/context-rot
04Model Context Protocol19 links
  1. 01arxiv.org/pdf/2506.13538
  2. 02docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/administer-copilot/manage-mcp-usage/configure-mcp-registry
  3. 03github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything
  4. 04github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp
  5. 05github.com/punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers
  6. 06invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-github-vulnerability
  7. 07invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-security-notification-tool-poisoning-attacks
  8. 08mcp.so
  9. 09microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
  10. 10modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/sdk
  11. 11modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/2026-07-28/tools/inspector
  12. 12modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28
  13. 13owasp.org/www-project-mcp-top-10/
  14. 14registry.modelcontextprotocol.io
  15. 15www.anthropic.com/engineering/advanced-tool-use
  16. 16www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mcp
  17. 17www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs551/saltzer/
  18. 18www.docker.com/blog/docker-mcp-ai-agent-developer-setup/
  19. 19www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/tool-space-interference-in-the-mcp-era-designing-for-agent-compatibility-at-scale/
05Spec-Driven Development2 links
  1. 01arxiv.org/abs/2411.01414
  2. 02mapsworkshop.github.io/assets/LLM_Code_Error_Analysis_MAPS2023_camera-ready.pdf
06The SDD Workflow6 links
  1. 01en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characterization_test
  2. 02en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test-driven_development
  3. 03github.com/architecture-decision-record/architecture-decision-record
  4. 04martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
  5. 05martinfowler.com/articles/feature-toggles.html
  6. 06www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/spike.html
07SDD Frameworks Compared14 links
  1. 01alistairmavin.com/ears/
  2. 02developer.microsoft.com/blog/spec-driven-development-spec-kit
  3. 03docs.bmad-method.org/explanation/build/
  4. 04docs.bmad-method.org/reference/core-tools/#bmad-review
  5. 05docs.bmad-method.org/reference/testing/
  6. 06github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/spec-driven-development-with-ai-get-started-with-a-new-open-source-toolkit/
  7. 07github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills
  8. 08github.com/bmad-code-org/bmad-method
  9. 09github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD/tree/main/src/bmm-skills/plan/bmad-document-project
  10. 10github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec
  11. 11github.com/github/spec-kit
  12. 12github.com/github/spec-kit/blob/main/spec-driven.md
  13. 13github.github.io/spec-kit/community/extensions.html
  14. 14kiro.dev/
08Verification and Quality Gates55 links
  1. 01arxiv.org/abs/2310.13548
  2. 02blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/
  3. 03codeintelligently.com/blog/architecture-fitness-functions-testing
  4. 04docs.astral.sh/ruff/
  5. 05docs.dynatrace.com/docs/deliver/service-level-objectives
  6. 06docs.github.com/en/code-security/concepts/supply-chain-security/dependabot-version-updates
  7. 07docs.renovatebot.com/
  8. 08dora.dev/research/
  9. 09en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints
  10. 10engineering.fb.com/2025/09/30/security/llms-are-the-key-to-mutation-testing-and-better-compliance/
  11. 11eslint.org/
  12. 12fast-check.dev/
  13. 13fossa.com/
  14. 14genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-llm-applications-2025/
  15. 15github.com/boxed/mutmut
  16. 16github.com/dequelabs/axe-core
  17. 17github.com/gitleaks/gitleaks
  18. 18github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse-ci
  19. 19github.com/HolmesGPT/holmesgpt
  20. 20github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture
  21. 21github.com/microsoft/pyright
  22. 22github.com/ossf/scorecard
  23. 23github.com/semgrep/semgrep
  24. 24github.com/sverweij/dependency-cruiser
  25. 25github.com/The-PR-Agent/pr-agent
  26. 26golangci-lint.run/
  27. 27google.github.io/eng-practices/review/developer/small-cls.html
  28. 28grafana.com/products/cloud/ai-observability/
  29. 29hypothesis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
  30. 30knip.dev/
  31. 31martinfowler.com/articles/harness-engineering.html
  32. 32mypy-lang.org/
  33. 33opentelemetry.io/
  34. 34owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
  35. 35pact.io/
  36. 36pitest.org/
  37. 37pkg.go.dev/cmd/gofmt
  38. 38prettier.io/
  39. 39sentry.io/product/seer/
  40. 40slsa.dev/
  41. 41sre.google/workbook/alerting-on-slos/
  42. 42sre.google/workbook/canarying-releases/
  43. 43stryker-mutator.io/
  44. 44trivy.dev/
  45. 45www.archunit.org/
  46. 46www.checkov.io/
  47. 47www.coderabbit.ai/
  48. 48www.cve.org/
  49. 49www.dash0.com/agent0
  50. 50www.datadoghq.com/product/ai/bits-investigation/
  51. 51www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/claude-code-review/
  52. 52www.ox.security/blog/static-application-security-sast-tools/
  53. 53www.sigstore.dev/
  54. 54www.sonarsource.com/products/sonarqube/
  55. 55www.typescriptlang.org/tsconfig/#strict
09Agent Orchestration Patterns14 links
  1. 01addyosmani.com/blog/code-agent-orchestra/
  2. 02arxiv.org/abs/2503.10657
  3. 03arxiv.org/abs/2603.04445
  4. 04code.claude.com/docs/en/workflows
  5. 05docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/copilot-cli/context-management
  6. 06factory.ai/news/software-factory
  7. 07ghuntley.com/ralph/
  8. 08git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree
  9. 09learn.chatgpt.com/docs/codex-sdk
  10. 10www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-agents
  11. 11www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents
  12. 12www.anthropic.com/engineering/multi-agent-research-system
  13. 13www.epam.com/insights/ai/blogs/building-a-dark-factory-with-ai-agents
  14. 14www.mindstudio.ai/blog/what-is-a-dark-factory-ai-agent
10Scaling AI-Native Engineering in Teams15 links
  1. 01addyo.substack.com/p/avoiding-skill-atrophy-in-the-age
  2. 02ainativesoftware.engineering/canvas
  3. 03docs.github.com/en/copilot/tutorials/roll-out-at-scale/enable-developers/drive-adoption
  4. 04dora.dev/research/2025/dora-report/
  5. 05en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_model_canvas
  6. 06getdx.com/research/measuring-developer-productivity-with-the-dx-core-4/
  7. 07github.com/antirez/ds4
  8. 08lanziani.com/posts/2025/10/skeptical-to-believer/
  9. 09survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai
  10. 10www.bain.com/insights/from-pilots-to-payoff-generative-ai-in-software-development-technology-report-2025/
  11. 11www.digitalapplied.com/blog/change-management-ai-adoption-2026-overcoming-resistance-playbook
  12. 12www.faros.ai/research/ai-acceleration-whiplash
  13. 13www.oreilly.com/library/view/scaling-ai-adoption/0642572246563/
  14. 14www.paulmduvall.com/sharing-ai-development-rules-across-your-organization/
  15. 15www.sei.cmu.edu/library/ai-adoption-maturity-model/
11AI-Native in Practice at Cogwheel1 link
  1. 01github.com/vercel-labs/agent-skills/tree/main/skills/react-best-practices

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