AI animation course series
AI helpers & connected tools
Meet agents, MCP, and skills—and learn to check access first.
7 friendly short lessons
- Start with familiar questions
- Learn through recurring comic characters
- Leave each lesson with something to try
Pick what you're curious about
AI helpers & connected tools
7 friendly short lessons
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How does a chatbot become a helper?
Story setup: BIT wants to open a door, then realizes it has no key or handle.
What you will learn: Separate model reasoning, app capabilities, and tool calls.
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Check permissions before plugging in MCP
Story setup: Gulu gives BIT a key ring. Goose asks which key opens the safe.
What you will learn: Understand tool connections, scope of access, and confirmation.
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Turn repeatable steps into a reusable Skill
Story setup: Goose turns a memo into a process card; BIT stops relearning shoelaces.
What you will learn: Learn what Skills, project rules, and external tools each do.
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RAG: How can AI look up files before answering?
Story setup: BIT tries to eat a 200-page cookbook; Goose pulls out three relevant pages first.
What you will learn: RAG retrieves relevant passages, then asks a model to draft an answer; check the cited source.
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Semantic search: How can AI find similar meaning?
Story setup: Gulu asks BIT for warm food; BIT finds tomato soup and a hot-water-bottle ad.
What you will learn: Embeddings encode text as numbers to find related items; similarity is a clue, so check the source.
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Document chunks: Why not search a whole book at once?
Story setup: BIT drops a cookbook into search and pancakes the computer; splitting it into single words leaves a bag of clues.
What you will learn: RAG searches smaller pieces; chunks that are too big add noise, and tiny ones lose context.
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Should AI decide on its own? Match access to risk
Story setup: BIT drafts a menu and invitation, then pauses for Gulu before sending or paying.
What you will learn: Start read-only, then allow reversible edits; external and high-impact actions need stronger checks.
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