Using an AI agent skill to generate interactive Educates workshops.

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A deep dive into using AI agent skills to automate the creation of interactive workshops on the Educates training platform. The author traces the evolution of AI agent steering from raw prompting to persistent instruction files, MCP tool access, planning modes, and finally 'skills' — self-contained packages of domain knowledge and workflow guidance. A custom Educates workshop authoring skill (~25KB main definition + 20+ reference files) was built to encode platform-specific knowledge like YAML config structures and clickable action syntax. The skill was tested by generating a complete introductory workshop for the Air Python web framework — a topic the author had no personal experience with. The result required only three minor fixes before being functional, demonstrating how skills shift the author's role from writing from scratch to reviewing and refining AI-generated content.

Teaching an AI about Educates