Comment by xtiansimon
5 hours ago
I’m getting into the agentic coding (I know, late to the party, and that’s been a good spot for my experience and use case), so I’m reading with interest. The first tip: “give Claude a way to verify its own work”.
So what’s the recommendation for Claude to have a feedback loop?
Because it’s not what follows in the article: _“Explore, then plan, then code.”, “Use plan mode…”, “Reference, do not describe.”_
In my experience, the biggest benefit comes from having good quality integration and unit tests that are easy for the agent to run on its own to verify its work against.
Have tests, provide screenshots (or enable it to navigate the UI): https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices#give-claude-a...
Typically for most code it's telling claude how to run tests.
For front end code it's giving claude a way to 'see' the work for example a Playwrite MCP server seems common. https://playwright.dev/docs/getting-started-mcp