September 2026
Intermediate
322 pages
7h 22m
English
A coding agent can create infrastructure files quickly. It can also create the wrong infrastructure files quickly, with a clean explanation and the confidence of somebody who will not be carrying the pager. That is not a criticism of the tool. It is the operating condition. Large language models produce probable next steps, while platform engineering requires repeatable state, bounded authority, and evidence that survives a failed session.
In this chapter, we will turn Claude Code from an open-ended assistant into a controlled platform-engineering worker. We will begin with a no-change preflight that establishes cluster and repository ground truth. We will then write phase specifications ...
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