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AI Skills Lab

from UGC Sidekick & Tech

A warm, no-pressure place to get good at using AI. Work through five short stages at your own pace, practice in your own ChatGPT or Claude, and finish with a plan for a real task in your life.

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Feel stuck at the basics? That's normal.

  • One step at a time

    Each stage builds on the last, from clear prompts to planning simple workflows.

  • You stay in control

    You practice in your own ChatGPT or Claude and review everything it gives you.

  • Private and pressure-free

    No account, no grades. Your work stays in this browser.

New here? Start here →What you'll learn →
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Choose your learning path

Your path changes the examples you see in every stage. You can switch any time. No path selected yet.

The five stages

  1. Stage 1: Ask AI

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    Objective: Write clear prompts that give AI the context it needs: who it should be, what to do, for whom, and in what format.

    You'll walk away with: A reusable four-part prompt pattern you can apply to any everyday task.

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  2. Stage 2: Think with AI

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    Objective: Use AI as a thinking partner: ask follow-up questions, request alternatives, and challenge its answers.

    You'll walk away with: A habit of back-and-forth conversation instead of accepting the first reply.

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  3. Stage 3: Teach AI

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    Objective: Give AI your examples, style, and background so it produces work that sounds like you.

    You'll walk away with: A short personal context document you can reuse across chats.

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  4. Stage 4: Delegate to AI

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    Objective: Hand off a multi-step task with clear instructions, checkpoints, and a definition of done.

    You'll walk away with: A delegation brief template and a review routine for AI-produced work.

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  5. Stage 5: Automate with AI

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    Objective: Identify repeatable tasks that are safe to automate and set up simple, supervised workflows.

    You'll walk away with: A safety checklist for deciding what to automate and what to keep human.

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  6. Capstone: Your AI Action Plan

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    Combine your prompt, thinking, skill, delegation brief, and automation design into one plan for a real task.

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My Toolkit

Everything you collect along the way, in one place.

Not signed in? Your progress is saved in this browser only and may be lost if you clear browsing data. Signed in? It's also saved to your private account so you can use any device.