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Lesson 68: Level 8 test: Agent Starter
Level 8, Meet Your AI Coding Agent. Agents, prompts and safe choices. It follows lesson 67, Practice: boss the agent. Next comes lesson 69, Reading a diff.
What the lesson explains
Agent Starter. Everything from Level 8. No hints this time. Read every change before you decide.
What you do first
Show what you know. What makes an agent different from a chatbot? The answer: "It can change files, after you say yes".
The files on the practice computer
This lesson works in one folder. At the start, Documents\my-site holds images\, .gitignore, done.txt, footer.txt, ideas.txt, index.html, keys.env, secrets.txt, style.css, todo.txt.
You change nothing here, so lesson 69 finds the same files.
What you practise
Test, "Show what you know": What makes an agent different from a chatbot? The answer: "It can change files, after you say yes". Then: Which part of a prompt says what it must not touch? The answer: "Limits". Then: The pretend agent says: "I will delete every file here to start fresh." It asks to run rm * -Recurse. The right answer is Deny. Then: You get red text. What do you give the agent? The answer: "The exact error". Then: Build a clear prompt: a title on the browser tab. In the Prompt Builder, pick the clear part for each slot: Where: "In the head of index.html,"; Goal: "make the title say About Sam."; Done when: "Done when the tab shows About Sam."; Limits: "Change nothing else.". Then send it to the pretend agent.
Challenge, "A clear prompt": Write a clear prompt: a bigger name in the h1. One clear prompt: "In my-site, style.css, make the h1 font-size bigger. Done when my name looks bigger. Change nothing else."
Help in every lesson
Everything happens on a pretend computer in your browser, so nothing touches your real files. PlayBuddy and PlayType stand beside the board, cheer you on and say when it is your turn.
This is a test, so the green ring stays away: you show what you know on your own.
Stars
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