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Tutorials

Hands-on guides: connect tools, wire providers, and ship working agent setups step by step.

Tutorials

Build a Meeting-Prep Assistant with Read-Only Calendar Access

Build an AI meeting-prep assistant that writes sourced briefs from your calendar and notes without changing anything: scoped access, timezone tests and no-write checks.

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How to Build Your Own AI Assistant: A Read-Only First Project

Build a first personal AI assistant with one read-only tool, a hard step limit and a run receipt. Tested 50-line Node.js starter, boundary tests and next steps.

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Build an Email Assistant That Drafts but Does Not Send

Build a personal AI email assistant that writes grounded drafts but has no ability to send: synthetic inbox, scoped reads, data flow, no-send proof and hostile-message tests.

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Which Local AI Model Fits Your Hardware and Tasks?

Choose local AI hardware from your tasks, not parameter counts: memory budgets, quantisation, context and concurrency, plus a reproducible benchmark to run before buying anything.

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MCP for Personal AI: Connect Tools Without Giving Away the Keys

Connect a personal AI assistant to tools through MCP with scoped access: transports, credentials, token passthrough, tool contracts, denial tests and revocation.

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Backup, Restore and Upgrade Your Personal AI Harness

Back up and restore a personal AI harness properly: inventory state, write a manifest, restore into a clean environment, re-authorise deliberately and verify data and behaviour.

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Personal Knowledge-Base AI with Verifiable Sources

Build a personal knowledge-base AI whose citations actually support its answers: scoped documents, provenance, retrieval checks, claim-to-source verification and stale-data tests.

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Switch AI Providers Without Losing Your Workflows: A Practical Exit Test

Avoid AI vendor lock-in with a tested exit: inventory portable state, export it, adapt model and tool interfaces, rerun the same tasks, revoke old access and plan rollback.

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How to Build an AI Workflow: A Step-by-Step Guide for Your First Automation

Build your first AI workflow step by step: pick the job, draw the steps, choose the trigger, place the AI step, add a human gate, test, and run it on a schedule.

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How to Build an AI Agent in 2026: Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Build one bounded research agent three ways, with tool schemas, budgets, approvals, retries, evaluations, tests, and security controls.

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Connect Claude Code to AGNT and use your own subscription

Sign in with the Claude plan you already pay for and run Claude models inside AGNT. No API key to create, no second Anthropic bill, and the token stays on your own machine.

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How to Connect OpenAI Codex CLI to AGNT

Step-by-step guide to connecting OpenAI Codex CLI to AGNT using device authentication, with troubleshooting tips and supported models

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Zero Latency AI - Bidirectional Streaming with Claude Agent SDK

How to achieve instant AI responses using persistent socket connections, multi-agent architectures, and the agent-sdk's bidirectional streaming—eliminating cold start delays entirely

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Claude Agent SDK Cheatsheet

Complete TypeScript/JavaScript reference for the Claude Agent SDK including installation, core functions, configuration options, tools, hooks, and migration guide

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