Using Coder Agents to Author Templates in Coder
Blog post from Coder
Coder’s Template Builder and Coder Agents are presented as a way to simplify the creation and customization of Terraform-based Coder Workspace templates, addressing the challenge of combining compute, source control, authentication, and developer tooling configurations. The Template Builder provides an initial working template that resolves the dependency of needing a workspace template before agents can effectively test generated code, while the coder-templates skill and configured AI provider support agent-assisted authoring. Recommended prompting practices include describing developer needs rather than Terraform resources, referencing existing infrastructure-as-code, making incremental changes, using Registry modules, and requesting reviewable updates or release descriptions. Suggested use cases range from multi-repository setups, preview application buttons, metadata, external Git authentication, and environment choices to audits, modernization, safe deprecation cleanup, module discovery, and build or runtime troubleshooting. Although agents can generate strong template structures, users are advised to validate Terraform, create and use test workspaces, and feed actual errors back to the agent, as common issues include outdated module versions, invented values, undocumented field limits, deployment-level configuration dependencies, and unexpected module caching behavior. The workflow emphasizes version control, careful diff review, and testing before production deployment.
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