Hooks, skills, loops, schedules, and headless runs — the ladder that turns a chat-shaped coding agent into something that fires on its own while you're doing something else.

The coding agent that reads your repo, edits files and runs commands — how to install it, what a first session looks like, how to teach it your project, and what it costs.

Background sessions outlive your terminal and subagents keep your context clean — how to start them, monitor them from one screen, and avoid the trap that loses your work.