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HeptaMS AI Coding foundation
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HeptaMS AI Coding foundation

Leads to certification: HeptaMS Certified Skill – AI Coding foundation

The course covers working with coding agents: how an agent works, what it sees, and for what reasons its code can be faulty without that being apparent.

Course fee
Free
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At a glance
Scope
½ day (~4 h) 1 blocks of 4 hours
Formats
Live Online
Exam
Multiple choice, 10–15 questions, 70 % to pass, 3 attempts included
Prerequisites
Development experience. No experience with coding agents; that is the point of the course.

What it covers

The course covers working with coding agents: how an agent works, what it sees, and for what reasons its code can be faulty without that being apparent. The focus areas are isolating the working environment, handling credentials and controlling token consumption. It also covers the effect on review work within the team.

Why take this course

A coding agent acts with the permissions of the person who starts it. Documented incidents show production data being deleted despite explicit instructions to the contrary, and credentials reaching further than assumed.

What you can do afterwards

  • Explain how a coding agent arrives at its result and name what it sees and what it does not.
  • Distinguish augmented coding from vibe coding and determine from your own output which one is happening.
  • Name why AI-generated code can be faulty without that being apparent.
  • Set up an isolated working environment and limit an agent's scope of action.
  • Judge which credentials an agent sees and cut the permissions accordingly.
  • Set a token budget, monitor consumption and formulate a stopping criterion.

Who this course is for

Primary

Software developers who have not worked with coding agents, or only occasionally. Tech leads who need to set guardrails for their team.

Also a fit

Anyone growing into a tech lead or architecture role. Architects, DevOps and platform roles who provide the environment. Anyone asked to write an internal policy for agent use.

Learning objectives in detail

  1. 1 Explain how a coding agent arrives at its result (model, context, tools, loop) and name what it sees and what it does not.
  2. 2 Distinguish augmented coding from vibe coding and determine from their own output which is happening.
  3. 3 Name why AI-generated code goes subtly wrong and how faulty corrections spread through a codebase.
  4. 4 Set up an isolated working environment for an agent and explain why the safeguard starts at the action boundary rather than at the model.
  5. 5 Assess the blast radius of an agent task and cut the permissions accordingly.
  6. 6 Judge which secrets an agent can see and choose the right countermeasure: minimal permissions, short lifetime, separated environments.
  7. 7 Set a token budget, observe consumption and formulate a stopping criterion.

Dates & demand pools

Wed, 24. Feb 2027
18:00 – 22:00 New Zealand Time
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Trainer
René Hoyer
René Hoyer
Founder of HeptaMS

René Hoyer has been writing software since he was twelve. For over two decades, he has been accompanying organisations in their agile transformation: as programme manager, Product Owner and SAFe-Coach (SPC). He has introduced Scrum, Kanban and OKRs in large companies. He has been working with artificial intelligence since the early nineties, nowadays daily with coding agents. He is the founder of HeptaMS and OCENOX. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Detailed schedule
Wednesday 24. February 2027 05:00 – 09:00 GMT
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Thu, 25. Feb 2027
09:00 – 13:00 Central European Time
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Trainer
René Hoyer
René Hoyer
Founder of HeptaMS

René Hoyer has been writing software since he was twelve. For over two decades, he has been accompanying organisations in their agile transformation: as programme manager, Product Owner and SAFe-Coach (SPC). He has introduced Scrum, Kanban and OKRs in large companies. He has been working with artificial intelligence since the early nineties, nowadays daily with coding agents. He is the founder of HeptaMS and OCENOX. He lives with his family in Auckland, New Zealand.

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Detailed schedule
Thursday 25. February 2027 08:00 – 12:00 GMT
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