Agentic Coding - Part 1

Agentic coding has arrived, and there is no version of the future where it stays outside your FileMaker workflow, yet for most FileMaker developers it currently looks like a wall. Most every LLM ("agent") you can point at a project today works within a mental model of folders, plain text files, and version control, while everything you've built in FileMaker, your scripts, layouts, fields, and data, sits sealed inside a file that no model can simply open and inspect. This first video in the series takes that gap head on and shows why it exists, what it means for how your development process will evolve, and the groundwork you need before an agent can do anything useful with your solutions.

Watch as a dedicated project folder, a purpose-built internal FileMaker account, and a single markdown instruction file turn a general-purpose AI agent into one that can find your hosted solution, list every table it exposes, and execute scripts on request. You will see the hidden layers of your computer made visible, from the dot files that quietly govern each agent to the environment file that keeps credentials out of your version history, and you will watch the whole loop close when the agent connects through FileMaker's OData interface, reads the live structure of the solution, and runs a script without any manual plumbing. What used to mean hours of documentation and trial and error becomes a set of short, repeatable instructions that any agent you choose can follow.

This initial video establishes the connection, but the full series is where working with agents becomes a skill you can rely on. It continues with version control as the backbone of every project folder, reusable skills that extend what an agent can do, the quiet problem of drift as your solution outgrows the instructions you wrote for it, and the model and effort choices that decide how much you pay for the help you get. Taken together, the lessons turn agentic development from a novelty into a dependable part of how you build, test, and maintain FileMaker solutions.