ai-engineering-from-scratch

One-time onboarding for the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum (523 lessons, 20 phases). Interviews the learner, runs the placement quiz, and writes LEARNING.md, a persistent study plan the learn skill drives. Trigger phrases: "start learning", "set up the course", "begin the curriculum", "onboard me", "create my learning plan"

Phase quiz for AI Engineering from Scratch. Trigger with "quiz me", "test phase", "check my understanding", "do I know phase 3", or /check-understanding .

Interactive quiz that maps your AI/ML knowledge to a starting point in the 523-lesson, 20-phase AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum. Trigger phrases: "where should I start", "find my level", "what do I know", "which phase", "assess my knowledge", "placement test", "skip ahead"

Interactive lesson tutor for the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum. Reads LEARNING.md, fetches the next lesson, teaches it section by section in the terminal, quizzes at the end, and records progress. Works cloned or entirely over raw.githubusercontent.com — no setup required. Trigger phrases: "next lesson", "teach me", "continue the course", "let's learn", "resume learning"

Topic router for the AI Engineering from Scratch curriculum. Give it a topic, a question, or a bug you are fighting, and it points at the exact lessons that teach it, plus the right next command. Trigger phrases: "where do I learn", "which lesson covers", "course guide", "I'm stuck on", "what should I do next", "teach me MCP", "teach me Agent Skills", "where do I prepare for a Claude certification"

AI-native tutor and onboarding workflow for the four independent Claude certification tracks in AI Engineering from Scratch. Use when a learner wants to choose a Claude certification, prepare for CCAO-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-F, or CCAR-P, resume a certification path, learn the next lesson interactively, run and verify practical labs, build scored artifacts, take a diagnostic or mock exam, or remediate weak exam domains from GitHub with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another agent.

Focused interactive tutor for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) path in AI Engineering from Scratch. Start or resume this route when a learner wants to build, secure, debug, verify, or operate MCP clients, servers, transports, gateways, registries, or conformance gates. Teaches one lesson per invocation and records wire evidence in MCP-LEARNING.md.

Focused interactive tutor for the Agent Skills Engineering path in AI Engineering from Scratch. Start or resume this route when a learner wants to create, discover, invoke, secure, evaluate, package, or port Agent Skills. Teaches one lesson per invocation and records evidence in AGENT-SKILLS-LEARNING.md.

AI-native tutor and onboarding workflow for the MCPA (Model Context Protocol Associate) certification in AI Engineering from Scratch. Use when a learner wants to prepare for the MCPA, resume their certification path, learn the next lesson interactively, run and verify practical labs, take the diagnostic or a full mock, or remediate weak exam domains from GitHub with Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, Cursor, or another agent.

Hands-on project tutor for the AI Engineering from Scratch Projects section. Guides a learner through one stage of a real project per session: read the stage lesson, predict, write the code, run the stage grader, reflect, and record progress in PROJECTS-LEARNING.md. Gives hints, never full solutions. Trigger phrases: "build a project", "next project stage", "continue my project", "start the research report agent".

Draws static SVG figures for lessons, READMEs and manuals in the AI Engineering from Scratch look: paper panel, blueprint accent, nine figure kinds, fixed hue meanings, eight arrow styles, and checks for legibility and markup. Trigger phrases: "draw a figure", "blueprint figure", "sequence figure", "state machine figure", "figure for this lesson", "add a diagram to the manual".

Builds an interactive isometric machine page. Each station of one invented machine stands for one step of a process. A pure, tested state model drives the motion, the readouts and the copy. The page has controls and a verification loop. Trigger phrases: "isometric explainer", "machine explainer", "explain this as a machine", "interactive isometric figure", "explorable explainer", "show how it works inside".

The shared visual and writing reference for AI Engineering from Scratch pages, figures, and manuals. Use it for light and dark colour tokens, font stacks, FIG label formats, and card layout. Use it for the plain technical English rules and the accessibility and reduced motion defaults. Trigger phrases: "course style", "blueprint palette", "course tokens", "FIG label", "plain technical English", "check my prose", "course fonts", "dark mode tokens"

Writes a long technical manual that explains one subject at one pinned version, from its purpose to each request and response. Every listing comes from an offline capture, every claim traces to a ranked source, and an audit must report TOTAL 0. Use it for "write a manual", "write a 101 manual for ", "manual.json", "add a manual section", "build a capture kit", "audit the manual", or "pin a spec version and document it".

Builds figures that move or respond to the reader, in three tiers: SMIL animations and slider widgets inside lessons, interactive mechanism figures that show the named parts of a real system with a computed verdict, and ordered dither bands in the course palette. Triggers: "animated figure", "add a slider widget", "interactive figure", "show how this system works", "make this diagram move", "dither masthead", "mechanism figure", "figure fence".

Focused interactive tutor for the Reverse Engineering path in AI Engineering from Scratch. Start or resume this route when a learner wants to read a compiled program: file formats, disassembly, control flow, lifting, evidence, proof, calling conventions, compiler idioms, linking, types, debugging, bytecode, diffing, symbolic execution, and AI-assisted analysis. Teaches one lesson per invocation and records evidence in REVERSE-ENGINEERING-LEARNING.md.