# Agentic Engineering in Action (agentprose demo)

> Demo blog for agentprose: real issues of Maxim Salnikov's LinkedIn newsletter Agentic Engineering in Action, served to AI agents through WebMCP. This is a demo copy; the originals live on LinkedIn.

Author: Maxim Salnikov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/webmax/). Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/agentic-engineering-in-action-6864516245006376960/

## Posts

- [Where Is the Gate? A Practical Look at AI Engineering Systems](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/where-gate-practical-look-ai-engineering-systems/): By an AI engineering system, I mean how a team uses agents to take an idea all the way to a reliable change: the context agents can use, the actions they can take, the tests and approvals a change… (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-09-30; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/where-gate-practical-look-ai-engineering-systems-maxim-salnikov-g1snc)
- [One corpus, many harnesses: what it took to keep our AI consistent](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/one-corpus-many-harnesses-what-took-keep-our-ai/): Guest post: This edition is written by Einar Ingebrigtsen, sharing his own perspective and experience. (by Einar Ingebrigtsen, 2026-09-28; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/one-corpus-many-harnesses-what-took-keep-our-ai-maxim-salnikov-vs6pe)
- [What I learned building 6 apps and solving 10 related engineering problems for the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/what-i-learned-building-6-apps-solving-10-related-openai/): I built six working app prototypes in a short time for the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-09-25; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-i-learned-building-6-apps-solving-10-related-openai-salnikov-r0f9e)
- [GitHub Agentic Workflows: The Five-Minute Version + Free Book](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/github-agentic-workflows-five-minute-version-free-book/): What gh-aw is, where it fits, and what to expect from my new interactive book Note: this article is not a book itself (see below) but a quick introduction to GitHub Agentic Workflows so you could… (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-09-21; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/github-agentic-workflows-five-minute-version-free-book-maxim-salnikov-6nhre)
- [Your Agent’s Context Has a Supply Chain. Manage It.](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/your-agents-context-has-supply-chain-manage/): Building a supply chain for agent context with Microsoft Agent Package Manager An AI coding agent’s working environment starts taking shape before we send the first prompt. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-09-08; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/your-agents-context-has-supply-chain-manage-maxim-salnikov-n2e7e)
- [Giving AI agents a real computer](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/giving-ai-agents-real-computer/): How I built Sandcastle on the new GitHub Copilot provider for Microsoft Agent Framework — and what the feature actually unlocks ▶️ Live demo: https://sandcastle.isainative. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-07-23; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/giving-ai-agents-real-computer-maxim-salnikov-zexxe)
- [The Best AI Coding Model Is a Moving Target. Build a Selection System Instead](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/best-ai-coding-model-moving-target-build-selection-system/): Choosing an AI coding model from a leaderboard is like choosing a route from a screenshot of yesterday's traffic. The route may have been fastest when it was measured. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-07-15; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/best-ai-coding-model-moving-target-build-selection-system-salnikov-idvfe)
- [The First 80% Takes Nine Minutes. The Last 20% Takes Two Days.](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/first-80-takes-nine-minutes-last-20-two-days/): Picture a product team at 9:07 on a Tuesday morning. A product manager asks an agent to add saved views to an internal dashboard. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-07-13; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/first-80-takes-nine-minutes-last-20-two-days-maxim-salnikov-ingde)
- [You can't tune what you can't see: prompt‑cache observability for GitHub Copilot with OpenTelemetry](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/you-cant-tune-what-see-promptcache-observability-github/): Open VS Code, ask Copilot Chat one question, and if you crack open the debug view you can watch prompt‑cache tokens tick past for that single call. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-07-08; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/you-cant-tune-what-see-promptcache-observability-github-salnikov-gstye)
- [Design, but with tests: an engineering approach to UX with Impeccable](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/design-tests-engineering-approach-ux-impeccable/): Impeccable — now built into the GitHub Copilot app — treats design quality the way we treat code quality. This is what that looked like on a real app that was already shipping. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-07-01; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/design-tests-engineering-approach-ux-impeccable-maxim-salnikov-f2rle)
- [The model is a commodity. The harness is your advantage. A hands-on experiment with GitHub Copilot app's Canvas](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/model-commodity-harness-your-advantage-hands-on-github/): The teams getting the most out of AI agents are not the ones with the best model. They are the ones building a custom layer on top of it. (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-06-30; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/model-commodity-harness-your-advantage-hands-on-github-maxim-salnikov-s9mke)
- [Stop Putting a Raw LLM in Your CI Pipeline — Put a Sandbox Around It](https://vibeprogrammer.github.io/agentprose-demo/posts/stop-putting-raw-llm-your-ci-pipeline-put-sandbox-around/): There's a seductive idea floating around every engineering org that has discovered GitHub Actions and GitHub Copilot in the same quarter: what if I (by Maxim Salnikov, 2026-06-29; original: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-putting-raw-llm-your-ci-pipeline-put-sandbox-around-salnikov-qtwme)

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