Training module
M3 — Autonomous pipeline: ralph, beads & sub-agents
Reproduce an agent-assisted development pipeline: autonomous loop, issue base, self-checking sub-agents.
Duration : 2 days (12 h)
- Objectives: understand and reproduce an agent-assisted development pipeline: an issue base (beads) as the source of truth, an iterative loop that works by itself (ralph), and specialized sub-agents that check each other (worker, tester, reviewer, independent verifier).
- Audience: developers, DevOps, data engineers, tech leads.
- Prerequisites: comfort with the terminal, git, and a scripting language (Python); having taken M2 (strongly recommended).
- Content anchored in the real thing: teardown of an unsupervised night run (automatic task selection, ~5 h of execution, end-of-night report) and of a multi-sub-agent harness with cross-model verification.
- Deliverables / measurable outcomes:
- the participant has run their own autonomous loop on a small repository (10+ iterations, zero intervention);
- their issue base is initialized and synced (2+ issues closed by the end of the workshop);
- an “agent rules” document (what it may / may not do alone — e.g. never commit/push without human validation).