Course mapThe Autonomous Agent System: the full course map
From first principles to recovery. Lessons marked free can be read by anyone; the rest are part of the course: see what is included and the price. Already bought it? Log in with the email used for your purchase.
Stage 0 · Start here
Understand what an agent is, what it can do for you, what it costs, and how you talk to it before installing anything.
- Lesson 0.1 — What an AI agent actually is free
- Lesson 0.2 — Why now
- Lesson 0.3 — The five terms you need
- Lesson 0.4 — What to expect from an agent — and what not to
- Lesson 0.5 — What it costs free
- Lesson 0.6 — Where it runs and why not on your laptop
- Lesson 0.7 — What a day with agents looks like free
- Lesson 0.8 — What your agents can do for you free
- Lesson 0.9 — How you talk to your agents on Telegram free
Stage 1 · Set up the machine
Have a server you trust, a security baseline, and a backup that restores.
- Lesson 1.1 — Choose and size the machine
- Lesson 1.2 — Install the runtime and launch an agent
- Lesson 1.3 — Establish a security baseline
- Lesson 1.4 — Make backups that restore
- Lesson 1.5 — Check the starting point
- Lesson 1.6 — Install the agent software
- Lesson 1.7 — Confirm the text controls work
- Lesson 1.8 — Connect the model and background service
- Lesson 1.9 — Check the request path
- Lesson 1.10 — Ask for the first safe response
Stage 2 · Your first workflow
Run one bounded task with a written contract and an evidence-backed acceptance decision.
- Lesson 2.1 — Wire the first supervised workflow
- Lesson 2.2 — Keep three separate working records
- Lesson 2.3 — Define the workflow contract
- Lesson 2.4 — Record an acceptance decision
- Lesson 2.5 — Decide whether the workflow is ready for real work
Stage 3 · Build the agent team
Split work into bounded roles and make every handoff and review checkable.
- Lesson 3.1 — Design the smallest useful team
- Lesson 3.2 — Turn responsibilities into agent roles
- Lesson 3.3 — Design handoffs and memory
- Lesson 3.4 — Route models by consequence
- Lesson 3.5 — Build the orchestration loop
- Lesson 3.6 — Add a quality gate that can reject
Stage 4 · Run a production line
Turn the team into repeatable output with explicit media, rights, and publishing gates.
- Lesson 4.1 — Map the production pipeline
- Lesson 4.2 — Assemble the content engine
- Lesson 4.3 — Keep voice and subtitles on one clock
- Lesson 4.4 — Select contextual B-roll
- Lesson 4.5 — Render locally with FFmpeg
- Lesson 4.6 — Keep publishing a human release decision
Stage 5 · Money and the funnel
Model real costs and build an honest path from useful work to a customer.
- Lesson 5.1 — Understand the funnel
- Lesson 5.2 — Build the customer path
- Lesson 5.3 — Choose a simple offer ladder
- Lesson 5.4 — Automate email without hiding failure
- Lesson 5.5 — Handle payments and VAT
- Lesson 5.6 — Use an evidence-backed cost model
- Lesson 5.7 — Record real costs
- Lesson 5.8 — Design for quotas and clean stops
- Lesson 5.9 — Calculate unit economics
- Lesson 5.10 — Scale only after evidence
Stage 6 · Keep it running
Operate an always-on system with recovery access, bounded authority, and visible health.
- Lesson 6.1 — Choose the always-on route
- Lesson 6.2 — Stage the first hour
- Lesson 6.3 — Add persistence and a watchdog
- Lesson 6.4 — Build an always-on crew
- Lesson 6.5 — Set operating and delegation habits
- Lesson 6.6 — Use chat as a bounded control plane
- Lesson 6.7 — Add voice operation safely
- Lesson 6.8 — Connect a shared brain
- Lesson 6.9 — Use cross-agent verification
- Lesson 6.10 — Operate subscription authentication within terms
- Lesson 6.11 — Run an overnight security audit
Stage 7 · When it breaks
Recognize an operational symptom, identify the failed contract, and choose the relevant reference playbook.
- Lesson 7.1 — A scheduler is not a heartbeat
- Lesson 7.2 — Diagnose a silent authentication outage
- Lesson 7.3 — Separate approval from delivery
- Lesson 7.4 — Treat artifact existence and acceptance separately
- Lesson 7.5 — Measure the rendered artifact
- Lesson 7.6 — Repair an audio-visual timing contract
- Lesson 7.7 — When captions match but the voice does not
- Lesson 7.8 — Find the fallback that repealed the fix
