Harshal Dev
Cloud & AI Engineering Blog
Deep dives, production architectures, and automation guides focused on building resilient systems and cognitive AI agents.
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Building Systematic Error Recovery Blueprints in AI Agent Skills
A guide to defining systematic troubleshooting routines, exception handlers, and auto-recovery rules within local agent configuration profiles.
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Optimizing AI Agent Context Windows via Structured Discovery Skills
How to design context discovery instructions to help local code agents navigate repositories, find config parameters, and minimize token costs.
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Version Controlling AI Agent Behaviors in Team Workflows
Why you should store agent instructions inside Git, tracking behavior changes over commit history, and standardizing prompt templates for team alignment.
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Designing Executable Verification Checklists in Agent Skills
How to eliminate deployment bugs by embedding self-verifying test commands and assertion steps directly within local agent skill definitions.
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Designing Multi-Agent Handoff Systems Using Markdown Blueprints
A deep dive into setting up supervisor-worker collaboration patterns using structured agent.md configurations and handoff skill guides.
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How to Build and Configure Custom Agent Skills for AI Coding Assistants
A comprehensive developer's guide to defining custom AI agent personas, task workflows, and repeatable skills using version-controlled markdown configurations.
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How to Build a Custom YouTube Transcript Fetcher and Video Downloader in Python
A complete step-by-step engineering guide to programmatically fetching subtitles, handling auto-generated caption fallbacks, and downloading media using yt-dlp—no YouTube API keys required.