AI Fluency

Your starter kit

Everything you take home from the course, in one folder. You don't install it yourself — you paste a line to your agent and it does the rest.

What's in it

Subagents — a small team of specialists your agent can hand work to. A critical friend that pressure-tests an argument rather than agreeing with it, a fact-checker that verifies claims against real sources, a writing editor, and a few others.
Skills — things you invoke by name. Proofread this. Build me slides on that. Run a premortem on this plan. Publish this to a link I can send someone. Sixteen of them, and you can add your own.
Snippets for your orientation file — short standing instructions to paste into your CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md, so you stop asking for the same things over and over. For example: "Never invent a statistic, a quotation, a date or a name. If you need one and don't have it, tell me what's missing."
Guides and course notes — plain-English how-tos for the questions that came up most, plus a written record of what we covered. Those notes aren't really for you to re-read; they're so your agent knows what you were taught. Point it at them and ask "what from the course am I not using yet?" and it can answer properly.
A checklist — your agent keeps a running list of what's worth setting up and what you've already done, so you can ask "what's next?" at any point.

Install it

Copy this and send it to your agent — in Claude Code or Codex. It'll fetch everything, set it up, and tell you what to try first.

Paste to Claude Code or Codex

Read the AGENTS.md at https://github.com/dragonfly-thinking/fluency-agents-and-skills and install the kit for me.

No GitHub account needed — the kit is public, and your agent downloads it without one. If you've installed before, running this again is safe: it updates what's changed and leaves anything you've customised alone.

One extra thing: Node

Two of the sixteen skills need a piece of free software called Node before they'll run. Everything else in the kit works without it.

Node is standard plumbing that agents use to run small programs. You won't ever deal with it directly. A great deal of free software is built to run on Node, so installing it once means your agent can use a whole category of useful tools later — without coming back to ask you to install something else each time.

Don't take our word for it, though. If you'd rather check before putting anything new on your machine, ask your agent what Node is, who makes it, and whether it's safe — that's a perfectly good use of it, and a good habit besides.

The two skills that use it:

convert-docs — turns PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoints and spreadsheets into plain text your agent can actually search. About a second per file instead of a minute.
browser-agent — for the work trapped in websites: portals, forms and dashboards with no export button. Your agent opens a browser and works through them while you watch.

Same idea as above — your agent does the whole thing. No installer, no password, about two minutes.

Paste to Claude Code or Codex

Set up Node on my computer, and do the whole thing yourself. I am not technical and I do not want to use a terminal.

Three rules before you start:
1. Never ask me for an administrator password. If a step needs one, stop and tell me rather than working around it.
2. Install it inside my home folder, not system-wide, and do not leave me an installer to double-click.
3. Do not use Homebrew for this even if it is already on my machine - it currently installs a version we do not want.

Which version to install:
- On a Mac, check my macOS version first. If it is 13 or newer, install Node 24. If it is 11 or 12, install Node 22 instead, because Node 24 will not run on it.
- On Windows or Linux, install Node 24.
- If I already have Node at that version or newer, skip the install and carry on.

Then:
- Make it work for the rest of this session, and make it stick for future sessions. Append to my shell profile, never overwrite it.
- Prove it works. Ask me which document to try it on and wait for my answer. Do not go looking through my folders, because some of my files are confidential and I may be sharing my screen. If I have not got one to hand, offer to make a small test file instead.
- Convert that file to markdown using @firecrawl/anydoc and show me the first few lines.

One last thing, but only if you had to install Node 22 because this Mac is too old for Node 24: add a line to my CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md saying so. Otherwise a future session will see an old version number and try to upgrade me to one that will not run on this machine.

Stop and tell me in one plain sentence if: anything asks for a password, anything mentions certificates or a proxy (that is my work network, not a mistake), or anything goes quiet for more than a minute other than the download itself, which is large and allowed to be slow.

If it doesn't go smoothly, that's a good one to practise on. Tell your agent what happened and work it through together — that's exactly the muscle this course builds. And it won't hold up a session either way.