# AI For Dummies

A lightweight, presentation-style field guide to AI-assisted engineering.

It explains how to combine a strong planning/review model with faster workers,
reusable skills, subagent handoffs, Git worktrees, and explicit verification.
An interactive field kit compares common behavior skills such as
`ponytail-lite`, `caveman`, `unlazy`, research, debugging, and review.
The skill-forge workflow covers discovery, triggers, package anatomy,
progressive instructions, structural validation, and behavioral iteration.
The hands-on lab provides a tiny starter project and copy-ready baseline and
skill-enabled prompts for a short side-by-side exercise.
An interactive model gearbox separates capability tier from reasoning effort
across OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini, and every featured skill links to a pinned
source with an approval-first installation prompt.

## Run locally

This is a dependency-free static site:

```bash
python3 -m http.server 4173
```

Then open <http://localhost:4173>.

Verify the content and interaction contracts with:

```bash
npm run verify
```

## Project structure

- `index.html` — default route map and focused chapter navigation
- `full-guide/` — the complete bilingual presentation, with responsive audit overrides
- `styles.css` / `app.js` — editorial visual system and bilingual field-guide interactions
- `responsive.css` — interactive diagrams and Full HD-to-4K adaptations
- `docs/references/` — bundled research sources and notes
- `docs/operations-guide.md` — canonical SilverBullet operations and skills guide
- `hands-on/starter/` — dependency-free Tiny Tasks exercise
- `hands-on/rules/` — dependency-free Guardrails lab; toggles rule sources into the prompt
- `rules/` — bilingual case study of skills, CLI ratchets, Husky, and PR review
- `skills/` — reusable design and rules-case-study skills, plus an interactive package anatomy explorer
- `skills-review/` — static review desk for submitted skills; its reader vote widget calls the separate `vote-service`
- `vote-service/` — small Go API + Kubernetes manifests backing the skills-review vote widget (see `vote-service/README.md`)
- `GATES.md` — acceptance ledger for the project

## Publishing

The Gitea instance has a Pages Server configured to publish a repository’s
`pages` branch under `pages.marcospaulo.dev.br`. The intended site address is:

<https://netcracker.pages.marcospaulo.dev.br/ai-for-dummies/>

If the URL is not available yet, verify that the `pages` branch exists and that
the repository’s `pages` branch exists. Gitea itself does not
provide a built-in Pages server; this setup uses the instance’s separate Pages
Server and Actions deployment path.

For the complete authoring, verification, publication, rollback, worktree, and
skill workflow, see [docs/operations-guide.md](docs/operations-guide.md).

## Reader voting on the skills-review desk

`skills-review/` is static, so its "which draft would you ship?" vote widget
calls a separate stateful service — `vote-service/`, a small Go API on its
own pod, one vote per visitor enforced server-side by IP (a MAC address is
never visible to a server across the internet, so it cannot be used). See
[vote-service/README.md](vote-service/README.md) for the API, the anti-abuse
design, and the build/push/deploy steps; `skills-review/index.html` sets
`window.SKILLS_REVIEW_VOTE_API` to point at it once deployed.

## Research

See [docs/references/README.md](docs/references/README.md) for official Claude,
Codex, and Git documentation. The [additional reading path](docs/references/additional-reading.md)
bundles 12 verified articles and guides, including Medium and practitioner sources.
See [model routing](docs/references/model-routing.md) for current provider controls
and [verified skill sources](docs/references/skill-sources.md) for commit-pinned provenance.

## Rules and enforcement case study

Open `/rules/` for a concise walkthrough grounded in the
`netcracker/interview` repository. It shows how `AGENTS.md`, project-local
skills, machine-readable repo ledgers, a UI contract ratchet, lint-staged,
Husky, commitlint, specialist verifier agents, and PR review reinforce one
another. Every example links to its source file in Gitea, and the page includes
a copy-ready prompt for mapping the same layers in another repository.

The implementation patterns are also packaged as project-local skills in
[skills/](skills/README.md). Use `editorial-playbook` when adding chapters or
sections, and `rules-case-study` when turning repository controls into a
source-linked teaching page.
