engineer@aine:~/learn$ ls -la resources/
Everything worthlinking to.
The free half of the ecosystem, the frameworks Chapter 7 compares, the protocol Chapter 4 explains, and the papers and essays the arguments rest on.
- 20 links
- 4 groups
- no affiliate links
Free, from this book
5 itemsNo email, no signup, no upsell. Take them into your next sprint.
- The AI-Native Engineering Canvasfreech10
Eight areas, ~50 prompts. Run it as a 60 to 90 minute workshop, or print the PDF.
- The maturity assessmentfreech10
Forty questions, a score out of 100, a radar, your blind spots, and three moves.
- AI-Native Engineer in a weekfree
Seven days of theory and practice, with curated videos and articles per topic.
- The forewordfree
The opening of the book, in full.
- The roadmap on GitHub ↗free
The same 7-day path as a repo you can fork, star, and send to your team.
SDD frameworks
5 itemsThe three the book compares in Chapter 7, plus the ones worth knowing.
- GitHub Spec Kit ↗ch7
The middle-ground option: real structure, not much ceremony.
- OpenSpec ↗ch7
The light option. Two folders: current behaviour, and proposed changes.
- BMAD Method ↗ch7
The heavy option: roles, personas, guided workflows. Powerful, and a lot.
- Kiro ↗ch7
An IDE built around specs rather than around chat.
- Agent Skills ↗ch7
Packaged procedures an agent loads when the task calls for them.
Protocol and tooling
4 itemsThe plumbing from Chapters 2 and 4.
- Model Context Protocol ↗ch4
The spec itself, plus the SDKs. Read the security section twice.
- MCP servers registry ↗ch4
Reference servers, and a sense of what people actually connect.
- AGENTS.md ↗ch10
The convention for the rules file every agent reads on the way in.
- node-code-sandbox MCP server ↗ch4
The author's own MCP server, 100k+ pulls on Docker Hub. A real example to read.
Further reading
6 itemsWhere the ideas in the book come from, and where to argue with them.
- What is AI-Native Engineering? ↗
The anchor essay: the definition, the history of the term, and where to start.
- What happens when coding is not the bottleneck anymore ↗ch8
The essay behind Chapter 8's opening argument.
- Lost in the Middle (Liu et al.) ↗ch3
The measurement behind the uneven-attention claim in Chapter 3.
- ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting (Yao et al.) ↗ch2
The paper the agentic loop is named after.
- Thoughtworks Technology Radar ↗ch5
Where spec-driven development stopped being a niche opinion.
- The Newsletter ↗
Chapter drops, working notes, and the things that did not make the manuscript.
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