AI getting started series 1: Getting started with AI agents from scratch - a four-step guide to installing with one command, understanding GitHub, having AI install it for you, and getting results

Getting started with AI agents from scratch: installing, understanding GitHub, and running your first tool

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July 24, 2026 · 21 min · 4311 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen
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My Open-Source Tool Was Targeted by a Bot Marketer!

The paper tool paper-review-and-digest I shared earlier had only been open-sourced for a few days when it received its first GitHub issue! I was actually quite happy to get my first issue, and I was even more surprised when I opened it: they didn’t just read my code, but accurately pointed out the parts of the design I was most proud of. He said he appreciated the “hard split between the model and deterministic checks”: grade_judge.py doesn’t trust the level of evidence reported by the model itself, but recalculates it from the downgrade items; argdown_lint.py catches argumentative leaps like “jumping from surrogate endpoints to hard endpoints.” Then he said he built an online portal for me, so visitors don’t need to install Claude Code and can just upload a PDF to run the critical appraisal workflow. He even made a promotional image: ...

July 9, 2026 · 5 min · 1036 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen