Reference

Full syllabus

Eighteen lessons. One concept per page. Build the checkpoint before advancing.

Week plan

Lesson list

1. Mental model — cognition vs authority
2. Model adapter — LM Studio / OpenAI-compatible
3. Structured skill — schema contracts
4. Agent loop — ReAct lite + budgets
5. Durable runs — observability foundation
6. Orchestrator — domain status machine
7. Policy gate — safety core
8. HITL approvals — approve / revise
9. REST interface — stable HTTP contracts
10. React truth UI — no demo data
11. Live monitoring — SSE / poll runs
12. MCP harness — any IDE client
13. Memory layers — brand + learn
14. Skills & media — free stock pipeline
15. Instagram OAuth — compliant connect
16. Gated publish — idempotent Graph publish
17. Evals suite — golden + policy tests
18. Hardening — threat model + ops

Definition of done

• Budgeted agent loop
• LM Studio via OpenAI-compatible adapter
• Schema’d skills
• Orchestrator + status machine
• Policy gate on side effects
• HITL approve / revise
• MCP + React on the same truth
• Live run monitoring
• Brand memory injection
• Real media + gated Instagram publish
• Evals + redacted traces
• Documented threat / compliance notes