If you only have half the time

Keep the builds and reduce passive material. Use this minimum path:

1. 1
   Thorsten Ball's How to Build an Agent, then one production prompt file from the Codex repository.
2. 2
   Anthropic's Effective context engineering and Writing effective tools, plus the MCP specification.
3. 3
   Dex Horthy's Context Engineering interview.
4. 4
   Anthropic's Claude Code best practices and the hooks reference.
5. 5
   OpenAI's Harness Engineering case study.
6. 6
   Google's Code Review guide.
7. 7
   OWASP MCP Top 10, the lethal trifecta, and two PortSwigger labs.
8. 8
   OpenAI Symphony and the Uber Agentic SDLC talk.
9. 9
   DeepLearning.AI's Evaluating AI Agents course.

The practical work is the guide. Watching everything without building the cumulative system will teach vocabulary; implementing it will teach engineering judgment.