🎯 Overview
This is a short, free course about one skill: asking an AI agent for work. Most people who get bad answers from AI do not have a tool problem. They have an asking problem. They ask the way they would ask a search engine. An agent is not a search engine. An agent is a program that does work for you, like a new office junior. A new junior needs a clear brief. So does the agent.
This course teaches you to write that brief. Four short lessons. No coding. No cost.
📌 The rule of this course: talk to the agent like a good boss briefs a new worker.
🧠Context
You need the agent tool from the setup guide in Resources. That is Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, or Kimi, installed on your computer. A chat website is not enough. A chat website cannot see your files, and later lessons use files. If you have not done the setup, do it first. It takes about ten minutes.
You do not need any other course first. This course is the front door.
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🔧 What the course covers
Lesson 1 - Say what you want. State the outcome, the format, and the limits before you press Enter. Bad and good examples from real office work: quotes, emails, and registers.
Lesson 2 - Give it the context. The agent only knows what you show it. Point it at files. Paste the part that matters. Say the business rule out loud. Build a practice folder.
Lesson 3 - Check and steer. Read the answer. Correct one thing at a time. Ask the agent to show its reasoning or its source line. Never accept a number you did not verify.
Lesson 4 - Reusable prompts. A good prompt is an asset. Save it, name it, and reuse it. This is the first step toward a skill: a written method for one repeatable job.
🧠Why this is a skill, not a trick
You already brief people every day. You tell an apprentice what done looks like. You tell a supplier what to quote and by when. Nobody calls that a trick. It is a work skill, and you learned it. Briefing an agent is the same skill with the same parts. Say the outcome. Show the material. Check the work. Keep what worked.
The people who "are good with AI" are not smarter. They brief better. In four lessons, so will you.
💡 Key takeaways
- The agent is a program that works from your brief. A vague brief gets vague work.
- You already know how to brief people. This course moves that skill onto the agent.
- Four lessons: ask, show, check, save. Each one is short.
- The course is free. Everything in it runs on the tool you installed in setup.
Next: Lesson 01, Say What You Want.