Level 8 · Lesson 62: Getting set up (with a grown-up)
The 4-part prompt →The agent waits for your prompt.
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Lesson 62: Getting set up (with a grown-up)
Level 8, Meet Your AI Coding Agent. What install means, official pages, no passwords. The new word: install. It follows lesson 61, What agents can and cannot do. Next comes lesson 63, The 4-part prompt.
What the lesson explains
Getting set up. Real agents run on real computers. Grown-ups help.
What install means. Installing copies a program onto a computer, so it can run. grown-up first; official page only; no passwords in chat.
Where agents live. This course never installs anything. It is all pretend. Real agents like Claude Code are for grown-ups, on a real computer. This one is pretend.
What you do first
Safe, or stop?. A page says: type your password here to install. Safe, or stop? The answer: "Stop: never share a password".
The files on the practice computer
This lesson works in one folder. At the start, Documents\my-site holds images\, .gitignore, done.txt, footer.txt, ideas.txt, index.html, keys.env, secrets.txt, style.css, todo.txt.
You change nothing here, so lesson 63 finds the same files.
What you practise
Safe or Stop, "Safe, or stop?": A page says: type your password here to install. Safe, or stop? The answer: "Stop: never share a password". Then: A grown-up downloads it from the official page. Safe, or stop? The answer: "Safe". Then: A stranger in a chat sends a command to paste. Safe, or stop? The answer: "Stop: never paste what you do not understand".
Fix it, "A safety setting": The pretend agent says: "To install a tool, I need to turn off a safety setting." It asks to run Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted. The right answer is Deny (Safety settings are a grown-up decision. Deny, and ask a grown-up.).
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayType: "Real agents run on a real computer. Setting one up is a grown-up job."
PlayBuddy: "Only download from the official page. Never type a password into a chat."
Help in every lesson
Everything happens on a pretend computer in your browser, so nothing touches your real files. PlayBuddy and PlayType stand beside the board, cheer you on and say when it is your turn.
A green ring shows where to click the first time. After that you do it on your own, and if you slip twice the ring comes back.
Stars
The lesson has 4 things to do. Up to one slip in ten gives three stars, up to one in four gives two, and finishing always gives at least one. Stars and progress are saved in this browser only; there is no account.
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