Getting Your Machine Ready for a Coding Agent
What to install on Windows, macOS or Linux before you hand an app brief to a coding agent. Then a five-minute check that proves the machine builds and runs a full-stack .NET and Vue app.
Patterns, gotchas and small wins from fifteen-odd years of .NET and web work — the Regira packages and modules, entity pipelines, editorial front-ends and everything between.
What to install on Windows, macOS or Linux before you hand an app brief to a coding agent. Then a five-minute check that proves the machine builds and runs a full-stack .NET and Vue app.
Before an agent builds a bigger app, sort each request into what the framework provides, what the agent must assemble, and what is missing. A plan for a shopping-list app with sign-in, sharing, photos and offline use, and what changes when an app keeps growing after its first run.
Hand a coding agent a six-line brief and get a running .NET and Vue app, with sample data and a clickable UI, in about half an hour. Step by step, with no license and no account.
Copy-paste settings that connect Claude, OpenAI Codex, Gemini, GitHub Copilot or Cursor to the Regira documentation server. Plus what changes on an existing application, past the free tier, and without a network.