Level 0 of 14 · about 4 weeks

Engineering foundations

Build, test and ship ordinary software before adding models. Every later level assumes these habits.

Modules

1. 1

   Python for services

   Typing, packaging, virtual environments and project layout

   Common 7 parts · about 6 hours

2. 2

   Git and code review

   Branches, pull requests and reading a diff

   Common 11 parts · about 5 hours

3. 3

   HTTP, REST and JSON

   Status codes, auth headers, pagination, timeouts and safe retries

   Core 7 parts · about 8 hours

4. 4

   Async and concurrency

   Running many model and tool calls at once, safely

   Core 7 parts · about 6 hours

5. 5

   Testing

   pytest, fixtures and testing code that calls a model

   Core 6 parts · about 6 hours

6. 6

   Secrets, config and logs

   Keeping keys out of code, and seeing what your agent did

   Core 6 parts · about 5 hours

7. 7

   Containers and CI

   Packaging a service so it runs anywhere, and checking every change automatically

   Common 6 parts · about 8 hours

8. 8

   Reading API documentation

   Finding the one parameter that matters

   Common 6 parts · about 4 hours