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Learning path · Beginner · 5h
How language models actually work
A practical path from what a model is to why it fails, so you use assistants well and explain them honestly.
- Explain what a language model does and does not do, predict where it will fail, and choose when to use one.
- Skills: Explaining tokens, context and prediction, Recognising hallucination and its causes, Choosing tasks that suit a model, Reading a model card
Time 5hAny assistant
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Agent building blocks cheat sheet
The parts of a production agent and the rule for each. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Prompt
- Tools
- Control
Entries 16ClaudeChatGPT
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Agent evaluation before release checklist
What an evaluation run must show before an agent is released or updated.
- An agent update without an evaluation is a guess deployed to users.
- ☐ A fixed test set of thirty or more inputs including refuse cases
- ☐ Expected outputs or a rubric per case
Items 10ClaudeChatGPT
Guide · Intermediate · 10 min
Agent architecture choices
The four architectural decisions every agent forces and how to make them for a first production agent.
- Agent frameworks differ in surface but force the same four decisions: how the loop ends, how tools fail, where state lives, and who approves side effects. This guide makes each decision for a first production agent and explains the trade-off.
- How the loop ends
- How tools fail
ClaudeChatGPT
Playbook · Advanced · 5h
Multi-step agent with approvals: playbook
Implement an agent that plans multi-step work and pauses for a person before any side effect.
- Multi-step tasks completed with every side effect approved by a person.
- Step 1: Separate planning from acting
- Step 2: Propose, do not act
Steps 5Deliverables 3ClaudeChatGPT
Playbook · Intermediate · 2h 30m
Add tool calling to an existing assistant: playbook
Give a chat assistant one real tool — a database lookup — safely, with validation and logging.
- The assistant answers account questions from live data without ever writing to it.
- Step 1: Choose one read-only tool
- Step 2: Validate the arguments
Steps 5Deliverables 3ClaudeChatGPT
Playbook · Advanced · 5h
Build a research agent with tools: playbook
Implement a read-only research agent that searches, reads and reports with sources, within a budget.
- A report with sources on any question, under a fixed cost, with no side effects.
- Step 1: Write the system prompt as a contract
- Step 2: Define the tools strictly
Steps 5Deliverables 3ClaudeChatGPT
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Minecraft server admin cheat sheet
The files, commands and settings a Minecraft server admin uses day to day. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Files
- Commands
- Performance
Entries 16
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Minecraft server launch checklist
What must be true before a public launch.
- The first weekend decides a server's reputation. This list protects it.
- ☐ Platform installed with recommended memory flags
- ☐ World protection and rollback tested
Items 10
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Server performance basics
What makes a Minecraft server lag and what to do about each cause, in order of likelihood.
- Lag on a Minecraft server has a short list of usual causes. This guide walks through them from most to least likely, with what to check and what to change, so you fix the real cause instead of buying RAM.
- Plugins doing work every tick
- Entities and redstone
Playbook · Beginner · 2h
Community and moderation setup: playbook
Set up the community around a server — rules, staff, reporting and events — so it grows without burning out the owner.
- A civil community that reports problems and shows up for events.
- Step 1: Five rules with consequences
- Step 2: Build the staff ladder
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Beginner · 2h
Plugin selection and configuration: playbook
Choose plugins that are maintained and configure them so they do what your server needs and nothing else.
- A plugin set that is stable across updates and understood by staff.
- Step 1: Choose by need, then by maintenance
- Step 2: Read the config and turn things off
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Beginner · 4h
Launch a Minecraft survival server: playbook
Set up a survival server with a plugin platform, protection, permissions and backups, ready for a community.
- A server that survives its first weekend with twenty players and no griefing loss.
- Step 1: Install the platform and tune it
- Step 2: Protect the world first
Steps 6Deliverables 3
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
FiveM server admin cheat sheet
Commands, files and habits for running a server. 4 sections, 15 entries.
- Files
- Console
- Permissions
Entries 15
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
FiveM server launch checklist
What must be true before the server opens to the public.
- Opening day problems are almost always on this list.
- ☐ Clean boot with no console errors
- ☐ Framework and dependencies at documented versions
Items 10
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
FiveM frameworks compared for a new server
What ESX, QBCore and Qbox each assume, and how to choose for the server you actually want.
- The framework decides which resources you can use, how your economy behaves and who can help you when it breaks. This guide compares the three common choices on the questions that matter for a new roleplay server.
- What a framework provides
- ESX
Playbook · Beginner · 2h
Server operations and moderation: playbook
Run the server day to day: rules, staff, incident handling and updates that do not break weekends.
- A server that stays up and a community that stays civil.
- Step 1: Publish five rules
- Step 2: Structure staff and permissions
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Intermediate · 2h 30m
Resource configuration and conflicts: playbook
Install and configure scripts so they do not fight each other, with a method for finding the one that breaks things.
- Resources added without breaking existing ones, and conflicts found in minutes.
- Step 1: Install on staging first
- Step 2: Read the config before starting
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Intermediate · 5h
Stand up a FiveM roleplay server: playbook
Build a stable FiveM server from a clean install to a private test with a framework, essential resources and backups.
- A server that ten testers can join and play on for an evening without a crash.
- Step 1: Install the artifacts and the base
- Step 2: Choose and configure the framework
Steps 6Deliverables 3
Cheat sheet · Beginner · 5 min
Agency operations cheat sheet
The documents and rhythms a small agency runs on. 4 sections, 16 entries.
- Sales
- Delivery
- Control
Entries 16
Checklist · Beginner · 10 min
Project delivery checklist
What must be true before a project is handed over.
- Handover is where agencies lose the last five percent. This list is the five percent.
- ☐ Every deliverable meets its done-criteria
- ☐ Internal review recorded for each
Items 10
Guide · Beginner · 8 min
Running an agency on a weekly rhythm
The weekly rhythm that keeps a small agency calm: what happens on which day and why.
- Agencies feel chaotic when every week is different. This guide sets a weekly rhythm — planning, delivery, client communication, review — that makes most weeks the same and leaves attention for the exceptions.
- Monday: plan and pipeline
- Tuesday to Thursday: delivery
Playbook · Beginner · 2h
Pricing and proposals that win: playbook
Write proposals that restate the client's problem, price the outcome and close on a next step.
- Proposals that convert at the stated price without discounting.
- Step 1: Restate the problem in their words
- Step 2: Price the outcome
Steps 5Deliverables 3
Playbook · Intermediate · 2h 30m
Delivery workflow for a small agency: playbook
Standardise how work moves from brief to delivery so quality does not depend on who is on the project.
- Any project can be picked up by any team member from the board alone.
- Step 1: Fix the stages
- Step 2: Define ready
Steps 5Deliverables 3

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