3D · manufacturing
Explore a lighter part
A design study brief with constraints, manufacturing choices and a review plan.
Start with Autodesk Fusion ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The lesson can be read online. Fusion access and generative design features may require eligibility, a license or credits; check current terms.
1. Give your agent the brief
Act as a design study assistant. I need a fictional lightweight bracket. Ask for missing loads, mounting points, materials, manufacturing method and units. Then make a study brief with assumptions, preserve and obstacle geometry, and checks. Mark any unknowns as unknown.
2. Learn and try
Study Autodesk’s course and its practice exercise. Use your assistant to draft the brief, then compare each constraint with the course. If you have access, try the provider’s exercise using its sample files.
3. Verify
Check units, mounting points, loads and manufacturing assumptions against the brief. A generated shape is a candidate, not a verified engineering design; qualified professionals must validate real parts.
Quick check: Is a generated part ready to manufacture?
No. Review its constraints and results, and obtain independent engineering validation appropriate to its use.
Official resource: Generative design course
Sales · service · operations
Turn a case into a useful brief
A reusable prompt and a short, evidence-grounded customer-case summary.
Start with Salesforce Trailhead ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. Trailhead reading is available online; hands-on features can require a Trailhead login and a compatible practice org.
1. Give your agent the brief
Summarize this fictional case in three bullets: A customer reports a cracked mug on arrival; support requested a photo; the customer has not replied. Separate facts from missing information and suggest one next step. Do not invent a resolution.
2. Learn and try
Learn how Salesforce structures reusable prompts. Try the prompt in any assistant, then create a reusable template with placeholders for the case facts and output format.
3. Verify
Compare every statement with the fictional case. The summary must mention the missing reply and must not claim the mug was replaced.
Quick check: Why use fictional data?
It lets you practice without sharing private customer information with a tool.
Official resource: Prompt Builder Basics
Education · content · communication
Design a lesson people remember
A one-page lesson plan and an accessible visual concept for a chosen audience.
Start with Canva Design School ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The course page is public; completing activities or using particular AI features may require a Canva account or a paid plan.
1. Give your agent the brief
Help me design a five-minute lesson on recycling for beginners. Give me one learning objective, a three-step activity and a one-question check. Suggest a visual with readable text, good contrast and a text alternative. Flag claims I should verify.
2. Learn and try
Explore Canva’s lesson-planning course. Ask your chosen assistant for a draft, then build the visual in Canva or another design tool. Revise it for the real audience.
3. Verify
Read the design at phone size, check contrast and the text alternative, and verify the facts with a reliable source.
Quick check: Does the model’s draft remove the need to check facts?
No. Review factual claims and accessibility before sharing it.
Official resource: AI in the classroom
Media · audio · accessibility
Make a short spoken guide
A short script, an audio draft if you choose, and a corrected transcript.
Start with ElevenLabs ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The guide is public. Generating audio requires an account and API key or the provider’s app; usage limits and charges depend on the plan.
1. Give your agent the brief
Write a 45-word welcome to a fictional community garden. Use plain language and spell out any number that could be mispronounced. Return the script and a checklist for reviewing pronunciation and accessibility.
2. Learn and try
Draft the script with any assistant. Follow ElevenLabs’ official quickstart for its API or use an available speech tool. Compare the spoken audio with your original transcript.
3. Verify
Listen for mispronunciations and omissions. Publish a corrected transcript with the audio. Use a voice you have permission to use; do not imitate a person without consent.
Quick check: What stays useful if you switch speech tools?
The script, transcript and review criteria can be reused even when the audio tool changes.
Official resource: Text-to-speech API quickstart
Finance · small business
Explain a fictional invoice
A checked invoice summary and a safe plan for experimenting with accounting data.
Start with Intuit QuickBooks ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The guide is public. Optional API practice requires an Intuit developer account, an app and a sandbox company; review app permissions and current terms before connecting anything.
1. Give your agent the brief
Summarize this fictional invoice: Design work $35, materials $15, delivery $10. Show the arithmetic, total and any information missing before payment. Do not create, send or modify an invoice.
2. Learn and try
First ask your assistant to review the fictional invoice. Explore Intuit’s CLI guide and sandbox documentation; if you choose to connect a tool, use your own sandbox and sample data, not a real company. Inspect the CLI and its permissions first.
3. Verify
Check the total is $60 and that no payment status or customer detail was invented. Review any proposed action before it runs; financial records and production credentials must stay private.
Quick check: Does a connected CLI mean every accounting action is safe to automate?
No. Confirm the environment and permissions, and review proposed actions before allowing them.
Official resource: Intuit QuickBooks CLI guide
Intuit: create and test with a sandbox company
Agent systems · automation
Run an agent with a memory
A working tutorial agent, or a paper design showing requests, memory and model calls.
Start with Cloudflare ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The tutorial uses Node.js, Wrangler and a Cloudflare account; model calls and deployed resources may incur charges. Check the provider’s current limits and pricing.
1. Give your agent the brief
Explain this agent as a diagram in words: a request, a harness, a model, a persistent transcript and a response. List where access control and a spending limit belong. Do not assume the example is private.
2. Learn and try
Read the official guide and ask any assistant to explain its components. If you choose to run it, follow the provider’s setup and use only test data. Compare the requested response with the retrieved transcript.
3. Verify
Check whether the stored transcript matches the exchange. Before exposing an endpoint, add appropriate authentication and review costs and resource cleanup.
Quick check: Is an endpoint private just because its URL is hard to guess?
No. The provider warns that callers can access the example URL; add suitable authentication before sharing it.
Official resource: Build your first Durable Agent
Robotics · simulation · 3D
Plan a robot simulation
A simulation scene brief and a checklist for testing a virtual robot.
Start with NVIDIA Isaac Sim ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. The tutorial is public. Running Isaac Sim has Windows or Linux, GPU, storage and driver requirements; cloud alternatives may cost money.
1. Give your agent the brief
Help me plan a simulated wheeled robot in an empty room. List the stage, gravity, ground, robot, joints and camera. Write three checks for a simulation and separate them from real-world safety validation.
2. Learn and try
Read the setup tutorial and make a scene brief with your assistant. If your system meets the requirements, follow NVIDIA’s steps and observe the simulated scene.
3. Verify
Check the stage, gravity, joints and camera in the simulation. A simulation is not proof of physical safety; use qualified review and real-world validation before operating a robot.
Quick check: Does a successful simulation prove a physical robot is safe?
No. A simulation tests a model under chosen assumptions; real-world validation is still required.
Official resource: Basic Stage and Robot Setup
Workplace · career · AI foundations
Practice an AI-assisted work task
A fact-checked practice brief with a clear human review step.
Start with IBM SkillsBuild ↗
Open the Dojo exercise
Ingredients: your choice of assistant or CLI harness; the official lesson; and a place to save a draft. IBM describes its SkillsBuild learning as free; registration may be required and individual course availability can vary.
1. Give your agent the brief
Create a meeting brief from these fictional notes: The team wants a community garden; a volunteer will price soil by Friday; the site owner has not approved the location. Separate decisions, actions and open questions; cite the exact note behind each.
2. Learn and try
Explore IBM’s AI learning for students, then run the fictional task in your chosen assistant. Revise your instruction if the first result mixes decisions and open questions.
3. Verify
Confirm that pricing soil is an action and site approval is still open. Remove anything not supported by the notes.
Quick check: Can a confident summary supply a missing approval?
No. A reviewer must check it against the source; the approval is still unknown.
Official resource: IBM SkillsBuild for university students
Use fictional or permissioned material. Review generated output yourself; never put passwords, API keys or private customer data into prompts.
