Schedule

Workshop schedule

Daily schedule, slide decks, and links to materials for each day.

Day 1

Mon 1 Jun

Foundations & first workflow

Deliverable
Working agent environment (R, Python, Quarto, packages) + the CPD complaints data downloaded and profiled + two exploratory plots + your own personalized global memory file.

  • ◦Foundations: what agentic coding tools are and how they differ from chat
  • ◦Setup and first conversation: project folder, terminal, first prompt
  • ◦Tooling: context, plan mode, permissions
  • ◦Install R, Python, and Quarto via the agent; then the workshop packages
  • ◦Visualize the CPD complaints data: annual counts and a density map
  • ◦Slash commands and memory
  • ◦Interview trick: generate your own global memory file (CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md)
  • ◦Privacy, copyright, and failure modes
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Day 2

Tue 2 Jun

Working with Data

Deliverable
First regression script + project memory file + table-formatting skill + figure-formatting skill + Quarto memo rendered to .docx.

  • ◦Four prompts I reach for most, plus getting the regression you want
  • ◦Join the CPD complaints and accused-officer files; first regression with beat fixed effects
  • ◦Project memory file: standing rules for this dataset
  • ◦Author a table-formatting skill, then a figure-formatting skill
  • ◦Draft prose with the agent and compile a short paper to .docx (Quarto) or PDF (LaTeX)
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Day 3

Wed 3 Jun

Customize & extend

Deliverable
Two-subagent critique of your Day 2 regression (one a causal-inference critic) + a three-subagent research report + 2 MCP servers + Superpowers + plugin-dev + Crawfurd's paper-review skill installed + a Superpowers-driven spec for an extended CPD analysis + your own plugin generated via /plugin-dev:create-plugin.

  • ◦Subagents and the hostile-reviewer pattern: critique your §4 regression
  • ◦MCP servers: install and use Playwright and a docs-search MCP
  • ◦Plugins + Superpowers: install Superpowers, plugin-dev, and Crawfurd's paper-review skill
  • ◦Spec-driven development: use Superpowers to spec an extended CPD analysis
  • ◦Plugin builder: generate and customize the letter-of-recommendation plugin
  • ◦Odds and ends: GitHub from the prompt, build a website, scheduling, and remote control
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Day 4

Thu 4 Jun

Applied & BYOP

Deliverable
Meaningful progress on your own research project during the capstone.

  • ◦Takeaways: what I hope you carry forward
  • ◦Some things I've built: politicsatwork.org, incl. AI record merging (fuzzylink)
  • ◦OpenAI API demo
  • ◦Applied capstone: 90 minutes of focused work on a project you bring
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