AI Engineering/Phase 14/Lesson 35

Initialization Scripts for Agents

Every session that starts cold pays a tax. The agent reads the same files, retries the same probes, and rediscovers the same paths. An init script pays the tax once and writes the answers into state.

Build 45 min Python (stdlib)

Prerequisites: Phase 14 · 32 (Minimal Workbench), Phase 14 · 34 (Repo Memory)

#Learning Objectives

Identify the work an agent should never have to redo per session.
Build a deterministic init script that probes runtime, dependencies, and repo health.
Persist the probe result so the agent reads it instead of re-running checks.
Fail loud, fast, and with one place to look when initialization fails.

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The text and code of this lesson are based on AI Engineering from Scratch by Rohit Ghumare, MIT licensed.