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Custom Assistants and Agent Guardrails

Delegate standing work to a configured assistant without losing control.

Outcome: You will ship one assistant brief and one guardrail spec with reversibility tiers.

1h 20m · 2 of 2 lessons · AI Coach included · Certificate available

Your progression

Evidence first

Where I started

Where I started

  • No diagnostic snapshot yet — starting from the course baseline.
  • Outcome target: You will ship one assistant brief and one guardrail spec with reversibility tiers.
  • First learning goal: use-ai

Where I am now

Where I am now

  • Still building evidence — completion % is secondary.
  • No active practice lesson yet.
  • Start the course to create a teaching run (anti-memorization variants).

Where I am going

Where I am going

  • Next focus: Write an assistant brief
  • Course objective: You will ship one assistant brief and one guardrail spec with reversibility tiers.
  • Certificate path: L1 completion available when the path finishes (not skill-verified L2).
  • Remaining lessons on map: 2

Learning progression

Comes after:
AI Workflow Design
AI Trust, Risk, and Disclosure
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Lessons

  • 1. Write an assistant brief

    Specify purpose, knowledge, voice, boundaries, format, and escalation.

    Expert
    40 min
    Interactive
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  • 2. Guardrails for agents that act

    Sort actions by reversibility and set approval, limits, and logging.

    Expert
    40 min
    Interactive
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