This workshop guides humanities scholars through the emerging landscape of agentic coding—building functional tools and applications through collaboration with AI, rather than writing code from scratch. We begin with Claude Artifacts for rapid prototyping and Claude Code Web for browser-based development, then transition to the Claude Code CLI for the remainder of the week. Participants will work through Simon Willison’s agentic engineering framework, learn to build and share reusable skills using the Superpowers methodology, integrate external tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and deploy smaller open-source models from Hugging Face for specialized tasks like transcription. The final deliverable is a working tool with either a local model or MCP integration relevant to participants’ own research and teaching. No prior programming experience is required—but bring curiosity, a laptop with admin access, and a willingness to think critically about what it means to build with AI.
