PATH 02Builder3 lessons · 3 hours
Guided learning path
Build a reliable AI assistant
Design an assistant around approved knowledge, a visible instruction set, representative tests, and a clear escalation path.
Finish with a small assistant that cites its sources and knows when not to answer.
Built for
Know whether this path fits.
Operators, subject-matter experts, and builders who want a useful internal helper without pretending it is autonomous expertise.
Syllabus
Three lessons. Three inspectable artifacts.
- 02.155 minutesOpen lesson
Write an instruction contract
Give the assistant a job, source boundary, response contract, and refusal rule.
- 02.265 minutesOpen lesson
Ground answers in approved sources
Create a tiny knowledge set with ownership, dates, permissions, and visible citations.
- 02.360 minutesOpen lesson
Test the assistant with real cases
Use a small evaluation set that includes ordinary, awkward, and prohibited requests.
Completion evidence
Leave with work, not a badge.
- An instruction contract
- A five-case evaluation set
- A sourced response and escalation pattern