# Best Practices for Using Coding Agents with Julia?

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**Created:** [April 22, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/best-practices-for-using-coding-agents-with-julia/136829 "2026-04-22T14:09:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Satvik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/satvik/32/20486_2.png) [@Satvik](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Satvik)\
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I use a skill (a markdown file that gives the agent instructions) that I had Claude write, which tells the agent how to find an existing tmux session, start one if it doesn’t exist, start/restart the REPL, and send code to the REPL.

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