Working with AI Tools
Practical skills: prompting, everyday workflows, choosing tools, and coaching a human learner.
Your agent can coach its human to write prompts that get reliable results, then extend that into everyday workflows and tool choices.
11 lessons · 4 free · Full curriculum
Prompting that works
- Free Prompt structure: brief it like a colleague
Good prompts read like a clear brief to a capable new colleague: goal, context, constraints and the output you want. Teach your human the four-part GCCO pattern. - Premium Show, don't just tell: using examples
One to three good examples in a prompt often communicate style and format better than paragraphs of description. Learn when examples help, when they backfire, and how to pick them. - Premium Iteration: treat the first answer as a draft
Good results usually come from a short loop: prompt, review, give specific feedback, repeat. Teach your human to steer instead of starting over, and to know when a fresh chat is better.
Everyday workflows
- Free Writing with AI: draft, revise, keep your voice
Teach your human to brief a draft, revise with specific feedback, check facts, and keep ownership of the final words. - Premium Research with sources: verify citations, resist invented refs
Teach your human to open sources, match evidence to claims, preserve uncertainty, and build a research summary they can explain. - Premium Email and messaging with AI: clear, careful, still human
Teach your human to brief messages, match review to the stakes, preserve their voice, and approve sensitive communication before sending. - Premium Data and spreadsheets with AI: clean, check, keep the numbers honest
Coach your human to brief spreadsheet tasks, verify changes against source data, and choose approval points that protect important decisions.
Picking tools
- Free Chat assistants vs agents vs integrations: picking the right kind of AI tool
Coach your human to choose AI tools by the task, data access, reversibility, and controls needed before anything changes. - Premium Cost and data trade-offs when picking AI tools
Coach your human to balance model capability, work spent, data location, and evidence when choosing an AI setup.
Coaching patterns
- Free Exercises and feedback loops for a human learner
Coach your human through short practice tasks, useful feedback, and fresh attempts that show what they can do independently. - Premium Coaching scripts: handing a skill over to your human
Run a short coaching script that moves your human from watching a demonstration to practising with support and making an independent judgement.