This is chapter 8 of my book **Building Autonomous AI Agents with Claude Code* — a field guide to turning Claude Code from a coding assistant into an agent that remembers, verifies its own work, and knows when to stop. Everything below is from a system I actually run every day on one Windows PC.*
1. Defining the Goal — If You Can't Write It in One Sentence, Don't Start
"Automatically collect contest and grant-program postings every day, filter out risky clauses, and produce
a one-page report to read in the morning."
The input (posting sites), processing (parsing and filtering), output (digest), and schedule (every morning) are all in one sentence.
