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Learn AI tools by building with them, not by watching someone else.

AI Skills Academy is a membership around one real thing: the 30-day challenge on governed agentic AI engineering, adapted from our own Enterprise Agentic DevSecOps Handbook. The first 3 days are free, no signup required. Membership unlocks the rest of the 30 days, live workshops, and the course track as each one ships.

Hands-on challenges

The 30-day build, day by day -- a real prompt, why it's built that way, and what to do with the answer. Live now.

Live workshops

Working sessions on a specific discipline or a stuck capstone build, not a rebroadcast of the guides. In production -- reserve a seat below.

Courses

A structured, self-paced path through the same material for people who want the full arc before they start building. In production.

The 30-day challenge

Every day is a full prompt -- role, context, numbered steps, constraints, and output format -- plus why it's built that way and what to do with the answer. Days 4 through 30 build toward a real capstone: a governed agentic delivery platform, the same one described on the challenge page.

Free -- days 1–3

Membership -- days 4–30

Day 4: Audit what credentials the agent actually inheritsDiscipline 4 of 10 — Identity boundary
Day 5: Replace one broad tool with a narrow oneDiscipline 5 of 10 — Tool design
Day 6: List your independent validation gatesDiscipline 6 of 10 — Validation
Day 7: Design the approval screen for a real changeDiscipline 7 of 10 — Approval
Day 8: Reconstruct one execution path end to endDiscipline 8 of 10 — Observability
Day 9: Design the rollback you don't have yetDiscipline 9 of 10 — Failure handling
Day 10: Score this workflow against the production checklistDiscipline 10 of 10 — Production criterion
Day 11: Draw your own three-concern splitDomain 1 of 14 — Platform operating model
Day 12: Frame the rollout as capability uplift, not replacementDomain 2 of 14 — Cloud transformation and enablement
Day 13: Make your repository legible to an agentDomain 3 of 14 — Agentic-ready repository engineering
Day 14: Separate model access from tool authorityDomain 4 of 14 — Governed model access
Day 15: Map your stack onto AgentCore's modular servicesDomain 5 of 14 — Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Day 16: Check whether your MCP tools still need authorizationDomain 6 of 14 — MCP, Identity, Gateway and Policy
Day 17: Confirm CI/CD, not the agent, gates promotionDomain 7 of 14 — Agentic DevSecOps pipelines
Day 18: Scale autonomy to consequence, explicitlyDomain 8 of 14 — Security engineering and approval boundaries
Day 19: Connect a request to its full traceDomain 9 of 14 — Observability and evaluation
Day 20: Put a number on whether the agent is actually helpingDomain 10 of 14 — DORA and delivery performance
Day 21: Check your region's actual authorization boundaryDomain 11 of 14 — GovCloud and regulated workloads
Day 22: Write the runbook for your riskiest agent workflowDomain 12 of 14 — Implementation runbooks
Day 23: Set your own baseline before you expandDomain 13 of 14 — 30/60/90-day rollout
Day 24: Build your own service-to-control mapDomain 14 of 14 — Technical reference
Day 25: Build the foundation, before the agent gets write accessCapstone 1 of 6 — Foundation
Day 26: Let the agent look, before it can touch anythingCapstone 2 of 6 — Read-only agent
Day 27: Let the agent make one small, reviewable changeCapstone 3 of 6 — Controlled code change
Day 28: Make sure the agent can't pass its own buildCapstone 4 of 6 — DevSecOps gates
Day 29: Add the human decision, and the rollback that has to workCapstone 5 of 6 — Approval and deploy
Day 30: Reconstruct the whole run from one correlation IDCapstone 6 of 6 — Observability and evaluation

Every one of those days is real, already-written content -- membership is what unlocks it, not a placeholder waiting to be filled in.

Membership

Free

$0

Days 1–3 of the challenge, plus everything already free elsewhere on the site -- guides, the advanced prompt library, and the models directory.

Membership

$49/mo

The full 30-day challenge, a seat at live workshops as they're scheduled, and first access to each course as it ships.

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Live workshops

Working sessions on a specific discipline, domain, or a stuck capstone build -- not a rebroadcast of the written material. Cadence and the first date aren't locked yet; membership includes a seat once they are.

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How it compares

Everything above is real today except the course track and the first workshop date, both marked as such rather than dressed up. The full 30-day archive is also readable for free at /prompts and /challenge if you'd rather work through it without a membership at all -- Academy membership buys structure, workshops, and what's coming next, not exclusive access to content that already exists elsewhere on this site.