FDE Bootcamp · Companion guide
Your companion through the bootcamp.
Short videos, a page of reading and a few hands-on steps for each module of the Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp. Start with what's open before day one, and come back as the course moves on: new topics appear here module by module.
- 6 modules and a workshop
- 9 topics so far
- About 2 hours
- Progress saved in your browser
Watch first · 4 min
What the bootcamp is, who it's for, and how to use this site.
How every topic works
| Watch | A short video at the top, with chapters you can jump between. |
|---|---|
| Read | The notes under the video go a little deeper, with diagrams and links to the book if you want more. |
| Do | The steps on the right. Most are a message to send in the Claude panel in VS Code; tick each one when it's done. You never need the terminal. |
| Set up once | Work through the Setup checklist: GitHub, your Claude plan, VS Code, Git and Claude Code, with short video walkthroughs. Then topic 0.2 has Claude clone the course repo and opens its fde-companion-kit folder, where you type /companion. |
The modules
The same six modules as the bootcamp. Each one builds on the last, from what an FDE does to a system running in production.
0Welcome to the World of FDEsWhat FDEs do, leading without authority, communication, landing the role, and how this course gets you there.3 topics · Open →1Agent Loop, Harness & System DesignHow agents reason and act, what a harness does, the fundamentals of AI system design and architecture, and the Claude Code ecosystem.4 topics · Open →2Building Your Own Harness, ReAct Agents, MCP & ADKDesign your own harness and ReAct agents, connect them with MCP and ADK, and weigh the system design trade-offs.1 topic · Open →3Memory & Multimodal Agentic RAGGive agents memory, and retrieval that reasons across text and video, measured against golden datasets.Coming soon4Multi-agent Systems with MCP, A2A, and OrchestrationCoordinate agents, tools and outside systems so multi-step workflows stay reliable under real load.Coming soon5Deployment & ScalingTake agentic systems to production: deploy them, scale them, and keep them observable under real traffic.1 topic · Open →
+Voice AI AgentsA dedicated 3–4 hour live workshop where you build an open-source voice agent end to end.Specialization workshop · Coming soon
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Six live weeks, four production projects and a capstone you choose. This companion is the reading that goes with it.
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