AI Level Guide

Training

Everything worth opening, sorted by the level it helps you reach — and every level here points at one thing to go build. Pick your level, or filter to your own corner of the work, then send anyone the link you end up on.

Level

27 resources across all six levels · 7 catalogs to browse

The reading is not the goal — every level here exists to get you to one thing you build. Pick your level above and the page will name it.

S1 · Personal

L0Start from zeroGetting Familiar · 5

LearningCourseTop pick

Claude 101 (Anthropic Academy)

Free vendor course — what Claude is and how to get a real answer out of it.

Guided fluency program that builds the daily habit from zero.

Get started with Microsoft 365 Copilot

MS Learn path for the Copilot already sitting in your Outlook, Teams, and Word.

L0Microsoft Learn

Google Workspace with Gemini

Google's free beginner path for Gemini inside Docs, Gmail, and Slides.

Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles

Google's short course on where the data-privacy lines sit and why. Free, about two hours.

L1Build your personal OSOne-Off · 5

PracticeTry itTop pick

Guided fluency program that builds the daily habit from zero.

Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles

Google's short course on where the data-privacy lines sit and why. Free, about two hours.

AI Fluency: Framework Foundations

Anthropic's free course on delegation, description, and evaluation — the L1→L2 skills.

LearningArticle

Follow-up Q&A — common questions about running evals.

L1L4Hamel Husain

PracticeArticle

Claude Code project ideas

Fifteen buildable projects across four tiers, from a personal site to agents wired into the tools you already use.

L1L2L3L4Jenny Ouyang

S2 · Team

L2Set up your Team OSShared Knowledge · 7

Responsible AI: Applying AI Principles

Google's short course on where the data-privacy lines sit and why. Free, about two hours.

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Free vendor course on the Cowork task loop — describe the job, steer it, review the result.

LearningArticle

GitHub 101 for non-engineers

Tool School primer — what GitHub is and why teams use it.

L2Hannah Stulberg

PracticeArticleTop pick

Team OS overview

What a shared team operating system looks like in practice.

L2Full Stack PM

Team OS example repo

Reference setup you can clone and adapt for your team.

L2Hannah Stulberg

AI Skills library

Drop-in skills to implement inside your team OS.

PracticeArticle

Claude Code project ideas

Fifteen buildable projects across four tiers, from a personal site to agents wired into the tools you already use.

L1L2L3L4Jenny Ouyang

L3Build with Claude CodeShared Skills · 13

Introduction to Claude Cowork

Free vendor course on the Cowork task loop — describe the job, steer it, review the result.

AI Skills library

Drop-in skills to implement inside your team OS.

PracticeArticle

Claude Code project ideas

Fifteen buildable projects across four tiers, from a personal site to agents wired into the tools you already use.

L1L2L3L4Jenny Ouyang

Introduction to agent skills

Free vendor course on building, versioning and sharing Skills so a team can reuse them.

Claude Code in Action

Anthropic's own Claude Code course — the vendor counterpart to the tracks below.

PracticeTry itTop pick

Claude Code For Everyone

Foundational hands-on course for any role.

Claude Code For PMs

PM-focused track — shipping skills with Claude Code.

Claude Code for Analysts

Hands-on workshop for analysts shipping with Claude Code.

L3AI Analyst Lab

PracticeTry itFreemium

Claude Skills for Product Managers

PM frameworks done with you.

I Stopped Installing Claude Skills. Here's What I Do Instead.

Nate B Jones on why borrowed skills drift — write the ones your team actually reaches for.

Claude Cookbooks

Runnable notebooks for the patterns worth copying: tool use, retrieval, sub-agents.

OpenAI Cookbook

The same idea as the Claude cookbooks, for the work running on GPT.

LearningArticle

Claude Code documentation

The official reference, and where to check what a CLAUDE.md file actually does.

S3 · Agents

L4Put agents to workAutonomous Agents · 10

LearningArticle

Follow-up Q&A — common questions about running evals.

L1L4Hamel Husain

PracticeArticle

Claude Code project ideas

Fifteen buildable projects across four tiers, from a personal site to agents wired into the tools you already use.

L1L2L3L4Jenny Ouyang

Introduction to agent skills

Free vendor course on building, versioning and sharing Skills so a team can reuse them.

Claude Code in Action

Anthropic's own Claude Code course — the vendor counterpart to the tracks below.

Claude Cookbooks

Runnable notebooks for the patterns worth copying: tool use, retrieval, sub-agents.

OpenAI Cookbook

The same idea as the Claude cookbooks, for the work running on GPT.

LearningCoursePaid

AI Evals for Engineers & PMs

The paid cohort course behind the two evals essays already in this list.

L4Parlance Labs

LearningArticle

Your AI Product Needs Evals

Hamel Husain's essay on why evals are the unlock for autonomy.

AutoResearch (Karpathy)

Skill repo for self-learning — agents that research autonomously.

Nate B Jones — playlists

AI News & Strategy Daily, sorted by topic. Pick the agent/system playlists.

L4L5Nate B Jones

L5Compound across teamsCross-Team Compounding · 1

Nate B Jones — playlists

AI News & Strategy Daily, sorted by topic. Pick the agent/system playlists.

L4L5Nate B Jones

Catalogs and feeds

Span the levels — browse when you want options, not a next step

LearningCourseCatalog

OpenAI Academy courses

Free self-paced ChatGPT courses from OpenAI — start with the foundations one.

LearningCourseCatalog

Microsoft Learn AI catalog

Browse every free MS AI module and pick one that matches your role.

L0L1L2Microsoft Learn

LearningCourseCatalog

Maven free lessons

Free sessions from paid AI courses — sample a topic before committing time.

LearningCourseCatalog

Anthropic Academy

Every free Anthropic course in one place, from Claude 101 up to agents and Claude Code.

L0L1L2L3Anthropic

LearningCourseCatalog

DeepLearning.AI courses

Free short courses from Andrew Ng's team — pick one that matches your week.

L1L2L3L4DeepLearning.AI

LearningArticleCatalog

Build to Launch

Jenny Ouyang's newsletter on shipping AI-built tools, with the exact prompts.

L3L4L5Jenny Ouyang

LearningArticleCatalog

One Useful Thing

Ethan Mollick on what AI is actually good at, written for people who don't build it.

L0L1L2L3Ethan Mollick

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