Agentic Software Engineering for Leaders is a comprehensive handbook for software engineering managers, aspiring leaders, and CTOs. The book provides strategic insights on leveraging AI and autonomous IDEs—such as Cursor and Windsurf—to boost productivity, enhance code quality, and streamline development workflows.

Agentic Software Engineering for Leaders
AI-Powered IDE Coding Agents for Organizations: A Handbook of Best Practices
First Edition | Published March 23, 2025
Version 1.0
Agentic Software Engineering for Leaders is a comprehensive handbook designed for software engineering managers, aspiring leaders, and CTOs. It provides strategic insights into leveraging AI and autonomous IDEs—such as Cursor and Windsurf—to boost team productivity, enhance code quality, and improve overall developer experience.
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Mine your Claude Code and Codex logs into a local you.md agent profile.
Local-first AI coding agent for VS Code & Cursor. Ollama, LM Studio & your inference fleet. Cursor-grade agent UX — offline, private, zero token cost.
A self-improving skill for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, AGENTS.md): recognize a hard-won golden path in a session and harvest it into a reusable skill/rule for next time.
Second brain for Forward Deployed Engineers. Engagement memory + 35 skills across 6 domains, all behind one @fde... Works with any AI coding agent.
Game-development Agent Skills for AI coding agents: install once and a master router loads the right skill for your engine and task. 66 original, version-pinned skills (plus a master router) in the portable SKILL.md format that runs across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Gemini CLI and more, for Godot, Unity, Unreal, web and beyond.
Honey (I Shrunk the AI) by GreenPT: a cross-tool coding skill that cuts AI coding-agent token usage and LLM API costs — write less code, less prose, and denser agent-to-agent handoffs (−53%, lossless in benchmarks) with no loss of quality. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline & Kiro.
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