Case Studies
Frameworks alone aren't enough. This section uses the frameworks from the earlier modules to dissect real Agent products — seeing what the abstract five dimensions, five layers, and Harness actually look like inside products like Claude Code and Cursor. Each study is an exercise in "looking at the real world through the lens": how a framework gets validated and corrected against a real product.
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"Teardown: Claude Code — A Coding Agent That Nails All Five Layers"
Using the course framework as a lens to dissect Claude Code's five-layer foundation, transparency, error recovery, and context management.
EX · 2 Cursor"Teardown: Cursor — Context Engineering and Human-in-the-Loop Transparency"
Use the five-layer technical foundation and the Harness framework to take Cursor apart — see how it feeds an entire codebase into a finite window and guards trust with diffs.
EX · 3 Parrot / Lassie"Vertical AI-OS Teardown: Why Parrot and Lassie Dig One Deep Well First"
A side-by-side look at auto-repair startup Parrot and dental startup Lassie to define the "vertical deep-well Agent product" archetype.