Course curriculum

  • 1
    Getting started
    • Welcome: what you will set up in this course
  • 2
    Working well with AI agents
    • The productivity paradox and five AI pitfalls
    • A framework that works: spec, error context, fix history
    • Cursor, Claude Code and Grok Bot: where each one runs
    • The model matters more than the tool
  • 3
    Installing Cursor
    • Install Cursor on your desktop and connect to the cluster
    • Installing Cursor CLI
  • 4
    Installing Claude Code without root
    • Install Claude Code with the native installer (no root)
    • Sign in to Claude Code on a cluster
    • Proxies, firewalls and allowed sites
  • 5
    Running Claude Code on the cluster
    • Four ways to use Claude on the cluster
    • Login/Viz nodes, compute nodes and keeping your session alive
    • Guardrails: permissions and an AGENTS.md for your cluster
  • 6
    Worked demos
    • Demo: submit an Abaqus restart and plot the ODB with Cursor
    • Demo: run eight load cases and get a summary
    • Demo: three OpenFOAM case edits, and one silent failure
    • Demo: post-processing with a ParaView batch script
  • 7
    Data privacy
    • Keeping your CAE data private
  • 8
    Wrap up
    • Checklist: using agents safely on a cluster
    • Next steps and resources