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Setting Up Your Coding Agent

High Priority13 min readUpdated November 1, 2026

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot are some of the most popular coding agents today. Now, let's get one up and running.

In this chapter, we'll walk through the setup step by step, give the agent a small coding task, observe how it works, and review the changes it makes.

By the end, you'll have a working coding agent and a development environment ready for the rest of this course.

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