Installation

A short list of essentials, plus the CLI agents and software that round out an agentic engineering workflow.

Essentials

The bare minimum needed to follow the workshop hands-on.

Essential
Description
Claude Code
The AI coding agent we use throughout the workshop.
Positron Positron
Data-science IDE built on VS Code, with side-by-side source and rendered output.
R R
The statistical programming language we use for the hands-on data work.
Spokenly Spokenly
AI powered voice-to-text application.
Ghost Pepper Ghost Pepper
Free, open source replacement for Spokenly.

Agents

Install one of these 3 AI agents (or all of them if you want to collaborate across platforms):

Agent
Description
Claude Code Anthropic
code reasoning skills & hooks plan mode
Excels at:deep code reasoning, multi-file refactors, and reusable skill-and-hook workflows.
Codex OpenAI
cloud agents images delegation
Excels at:long-horizon cloud delegation and image generation via GPT Image.
Gemini CLI Google
1M-token context images generous free tier
Excels at:very large codebases, image generation via Nano Banana, and a generous free tier.

Software

Install these software to support your agentic engineering workflow.

Software
Description
Positron Positron
Data-science IDE built on VS Code, with side-by-side source and rendered output.
R R
The statistical programming language we use for the hands-on data work.
Spokenly Spokenly
AI powered voice-to-text application.
Ghost Pepper Ghost Pepper
Free, open source replacement for Spokenly.
GitHub Desktop
GUI client for Git, with visual diffs, branch management, and one-click commits.
Quarto Quarto
Publication platform supporting 4 inputs (Markdown / Code / HTML / YAML), 4 languages (R / Python / Julia / Observable), and 4 outputs (HTML / PDF / slides / Word).
Obsidian
Markdown notes on disk, fully AI-workable.
Kaku Kaku
Polished macOS terminal with built-in file tree, AI, and pane splits.