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17 books

Foundations & judgement1

T01-L01From Idea to Working Result: The Four-Quadrant MethodOne working first result for a task from your own week, with five lines on the problem, what exploring changed, your choice, the result and your next step.User12 min read

Chat & assistants1

T02-L01Get Answers You Can Use from a ChatbotA before/after pair from your own notes, with the one follow-up that fixed it, which passes when a colleague can see the improvement and finds nothing in the final version that isn't in your notes.User13 min read

Prompting & context1

T03-L01Write a Prompt You Can ReuseOne saved prompt improved across three revisions on the same five inputs, with a one-line note per revision, which passes when a colleague can see what each change did and every missing field reads "not stated" instead of a guess.User13 min read

Your documents & knowledge1

T04-L01Ask Your Own Documents and Check Every CitationThree answers from your own documents with every claim labelled and every supported claim traced to file, page and a short quote, which passes when a colleague can find each passage within a minute and nothing marked supported says more than its passage.User13 min read

Automation1

T05-L01Your First Automation: Build It, Break It, Switch It OffA screenshot of your workflow's Executions tab showing one successful and one deliberately failed run, plus one line saying where its off switch is; it passes when the failed run left no row in your table.User15 min read

Build apps1

T06-L01Build a Small Browser Tool You Will Actually UseYour index.html plus three test cases, each with the input, your hand-calculated answer and the tool's answer; it passes when all three match, an impossible input is refused, and one improvement came from real use.User14 min read

Write code1

T08-L01Start With OpenCode: Set It Up, Change One Line, and Undo ItA before-and-after table of five searches for your changed page, a screenshot of the Review panel showing the one changed line, and one sentence saying how you undid the change; it passes when all five results match, only the intended line changed, and Undo brought the old behaviour back.User16 min read

Create media1

T09-L01Make One Image or Narrated Clip, and Label ItOne finished image or clip with its AI label, its alt text or captions, and the prompt that produced it; it passes when a colleague finds no wrong word, no missing label and no input you lack the rights to use.User15 min read

Data & analysis1

T10-L01Ask a Spreadsheet a Question and Check Which Rows It UsedThree answers from your own table, each with the assistant's row accounting and your own recount of one group; it passes when every source row is accounted for and each recount matches or explains the difference.User14 min read

Run your own AI1

T11-L01Run an AI Model on Your Own Laptop, OfflineA screenshot of LM Studio answering your own prompt while your laptop shows no network connection, plus three lines (model and download size, your installed RAM, one task you'll use it for); it passes if the answer was generated after you disconnected.User14 min read

Security, privacy & governance1

T12-L01Decide What You May Paste Into AI at WorkYour last five pastes into an AI tool, each classified green, yellow or red with a one-line reason, and every red one rewritten; it passes when a colleague agrees with each colour and no rewrite still contains red material.User12 min read

AI in research1

T15-L01Use AI in Your Research and Say Exactly HowA disclosure statement for one real piece of your work, checked against the target journal's or funder's AI policy, with the use log behind it; it passes when a co-author can match every sentence of the statement to a log entry and to the policy.User13 min read

Choose tools1

T16-L01Pick the Right Tool for One Task by Trying ItA one-page choice note for a task from your own week: must-haves, the candidates you knocked out and why, a trial of one challenger against your current method on the same input, and a one-sentence decision; it passes when a colleague could repeat your trial from the note and would reach the same choice.User13 min read

AI for lab data1

T18-L01Count Cells With a Ready-Made Model and Check It by HandA segmented image plus a manual-vs-model count on one region, with your counting rule and one sentence on where the model failed; it passes when a labmate can recount the same region with your rule and get your manual number.User17 min read

Share & review code1

T19-L01Keep Your Files in Gitea and Get Any Version BackA private Gitea repository whose main file has at least four commits in its History, including one revert; every message says why, and you can show the red-and-green view of one change and the earlier version within a minute.User15 min read

AI harnesses1

T20-L01Same Model, Different Harness: See What the Program Around the AI ChangesA four-row comparison table (three given runs plus your own OpenCode run) with result, minutes and step counts, one sentence naming the biggest difference, and three lines for your own task: the task, a check the agent cannot see, and two measures.User12 min read

Delegate desk work1

T21-L01Start With OpenWork: One Folder, One Task, and a Look at Every ChangeThe overview table the agent wrote for your practice folder, plus a five-line note: the model you used and where your files went, files counted against rows, three rows checked against their sources, one thing the agent got wrong or marked as not stated, and which requests you allowed. It passes when the row count equals the file count and the source files are unchanged.User15 min read