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Step-by-step practice. Each one names the page to read first. The steps are this guide's way of doing the work. They are not a claim that a paper prescribed these exact steps.

Path	Explorer through power user. Each path ends in one of these.
Time	One sitting each
You need	The concept page linked from the recipe

Do them in this order if you are going from beginner to power user. Skip ahead when you already have the artifact in the middle column.

Order	Playbook	You produce	Read first
1	Your first agent	A one-page agent card and a six-step trace	The loop, then the harness
2	Research agent	A raw/wiki/schema layout and one real page	Wiki memory
3	Write a skill	A reviewable SKILL.md for one repeated job	Prompts and skills
4	Skills and craft	One stack, reviewed before install, or a rejection note	Creative toolkits
5	Operate agents	A placement for three real tasks	Cloud and local
6	Review a gateway	Use, sandbox only, or do not use	Gateways
7	Score a run	A pass/fail sheet for one trajectory	Evals
8	Unstick a loop	One diagnosis and the single change you will try	The loop

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