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Lesson 1
5 min

Welcome & Overview

Understand what you have and what you're about to learn

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Goal

Understand what you have and what you're about to learn.

What You Now Have

Congratulations! You've just set up a fully-armed agentic engineering workstation.

Here's what's installed on your VPS:

Beautiful Terminal

zsh, Oh My Zsh, and Powerlevel10k for a stunning shell experience

Modern CLI Tools

lsd, bat, ripgrep, fzf, and zoxide for supercharged productivity

Language Runtimes

JavaScript (Bun), Python (uv), Rust, and Go ready to go

Three Coding Agents

Claude Code (cc), Codex CLI (cod), and Gemini CLI (gmi)

Claude Codecc
Codex CLIcod
Gemini CLIgmi

The Mental Model

Think of your setup like this:

ACFS Architecture Explorer

Click any component to explore

VPS Infrastructure
L1
5 more layers loading...

Select a component to see details, commands, and dependencies

terminal
~$acfs status
All systems nominal
Status Key
Active - running and healthy
Ready - installed, needs auth
Standby - available if needed
Your Laptop
SSH Tunnel
SSH Tunnel
tmux
tmux
Agents
NTM
All Agents
End-to-end encrypted

Your laptop is just the remote control. The real work happens on the VPS.

If your SSH connection drops? No problem. Your work continues in tmux.

What You'll Learn

1

Linux basics

Navigating the filesystem with confidence

2

SSH fundamentals

Staying connected to your VPS

3

tmux essentials

Persistent sessions that survive disconnects

4

Agent commands

Talking to Claude, Codex, and Gemini

5

NTM mastery

Orchestrating multiple agents at once

6

The flywheel workflow

Putting it all together for maximum velocity

Pro Tip
If you ever break something, you can delete this VPS and re-run ACFS. That's the beauty of VPS development!

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