Context Engineering for Coding Agents: Hands-on Lab + Agent Build-Off
A hands-on workshop on configuring Claude Code for real work.
Claude Code is powerful out of the box. But there's a gap between using it and mastering it. Closing that gap is mostly a matter of context: what the agent knows, where its memory lives, which rules it follows, and how its output gets verified before it ships.
This workshop is three hours of hands-on practice to optimize your Claude environment. After a short primer you join a pre-assigned team and build out a Claude Code setup in a prepared sandbox — working on memory, rules, hooks, retrieval, and prompt quality. In the final stretch we drop an unknown technical drawing on the screen and your system gets one run at it. Scores go on a live leaderboard, winners are announced in the room.
What you'll practice
- Shaping what the agent sees and remembers
- Writing rules and hooks that actually fire
- Designing memory so it finds what matters
- Judging output before it leaves the loop
Format
One continuous team build, one unknown challenge, one live leaderboard, closing with pizza and drinks. — The system you build in 60 minutes is the score you receive.
Agenda
5:00 PM — Walking dinner & Drinks
please be on time :)
5:30 – 5:45 PM — Welcome by Prosus
Opening and framing for the evening.
5:45 – 6:00 PM — Opening
6:00 – 7:00 PM — Theory + Mini-Demos
7:00 – 8:00 PM — Build Lab
Six phases: mission lock, sandbox orientation, second brain, skills + guardrails, self-test, freeze. Teams build their Claude Code system against the run contract. Facilitators float; the deck runs a silent timer.
8:00 – 8:15 PM — Drawing Reveal + One-Shot Run
An unknown technical drawing is broadcast into every team sandbox. Each system gets a single run. Whatever it produces is what gets scored.
8:15 – 8:20 PM — Processing Break
Last runs finish, evaluator collects output.
8:20 – 8:30 PM — Live Leaderboard + Winners
Scores land on screen. Jury walks through the top runs and the most interesting architectural choices.
8:30 – 9:00 PM — Pizza + Networking
Pizza, drinks, Q&A.
Who this is for
Technical practitioners who have already used Claude Code (or a comparable coding agent) and want to push past the default setup. Comfortable on the command line, and with Github, fluent enough in Python to read and edit a small repo.
What we provide
A pre-configured cloud sandbox per team, with Claude Code installed and API access included. Minimum requirement is to have a Claude Pro account — and bring your laptop.
Registering is not a confirmed seat — we curate the room and send confirmations separately
Delivered by Fausto Albers · GenAI R&D, AUAS · WonderWhy.ai