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237 curated resources, searchable and source-linked

A searchable snapshot of official documentation, primary-source announcements, papers, courses, and hands-on tutorials, arranged into seven reading paths so the order is a decision rather than an accident. Links and access terms can change; inclusion means curated for this edition, not continuously monitored or independently endorsed.

What this library is, and how to get value out of it

Two hundred and thirty-seven links is not a curriculum. It is a shelf. The difference between a shelf and an education is knowing which book to open first, what it assumes you already know, and when to stop reading and go build something — and that judgement is the part a list of links cannot give you.

So this page is organised in two layers. Below this box are seven reading paths, one per module: an ordered route through that module's resources, what each one assumes, the mistake that most often derails people there, and where to go afterwards. Underneath those is the full catalogue, every resource grouped by module and section, searchable.

If you read only one thing on this page, read the path for the module closest to what you are actually trying to do. Five ordered resources you finish are worth more than forty you bookmark.

What commonly goes wrong: treating breadth as progress. The most common failure with a resource library is opening twenty tabs, feeling productive, and retaining none of it. The second most common is reading the theory forever to avoid the discomfort of building something badly. Both are addressed the same way — pick the path, do the first item, then build the smallest possible version of the thing you want.

Everything here is free to read at the source, with two exceptions that are labelled where they appear: two links sit behind Medium’s member paywall, confirmed from Medium’s own isLocked field on 30 August 2026. Nothing on this site is gated, and no link here is an endorsement — inclusion means it was curated and checked for this edition.

Seven reading paths

One per module. Each names specific resources in the order worth taking them.

27 resources

Foundations & Prompt Engineering

Who this path is for: Anyone who has used a chat model and wants to stop guessing why some prompts work.

  1. Start with the picture, not the prose. 3Blue1Brown: But what is a GPT? (27 min), then Attention in transformers (26 min). Watch them in that order and watch them before you read any prompting advice. Almost every prompting rule that follows is downstream of one fact these videos make visible: the model predicts the next token from everything currently in its context, and nothing else.
  2. Then one mechanical detail. Prompt Engineering Guide: LLM Tokenization (15 min). Short, and it explains a whole class of confusing behaviour — why models miscount letters, why they mangle rare names, why a prompt that fits yesterday overflows today.
  3. Then the two official prompting references. Claude Docs: Prompting best practices (25 min) and OpenAI's prompt engineering guide (30 min). Read both, not one. Where they agree you are looking at a property of the technology; where they differ you are looking at a house style, and knowing which is which is the whole skill.
  4. Then structure. Claude Docs: Use XML tags to structure your prompts (15 min). This is the single highest-yield fifteen minutes in the module.
  5. Then the one long thing. Anthropic's Interactive Prompt Engineering Tutorial (3–5 hrs). It is the only item here that will change how you work rather than what you know, because you type into it. Do it when you have a real task in hand, not as homework.

What it assumes: No maths and no code. The 3Blue1Brown videos assume you are comfortable being shown a matrix without being asked to compute one.

What commonly goes wrong: Collecting prompt tricks. People arrive expecting a list of magic phrases and leave with sixty tabs. The chain-of-thought, few-shot and meta-prompting pages here are worth reading, but they are variations on one idea — put the reasoning you want in the context — and reading all four before you have used any of them is how the module gets abandoned.

Where to go next: Techniques on this site, which shows the XML structure applied to a real editing brief.

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33 resources

RAG & MCP

Who this path is for: People who now want the model to work over their own documents or reach their own tools.

  1. Understand the problem before the plumbing. IBM: What is RAG? (15 min). RAG exists because a model's weights are fixed at training time and your documents are not. If that sentence already makes sense, skip ahead.
  2. Then the one concept everything rests on. Pinecone: What are Vector Embeddings (20 min), then Semantic Search with Pinecone (20 min). Embeddings are the load-bearing idea; a retrieval system you do not understand is a search engine you cannot debug.
  3. Then build the smallest possible version. Hugging Face: Code a Simple RAG From Scratch (30 min). Build it before you evaluate any framework. It is roughly a hundred lines and it will make every framework's documentation legible.
  4. Then pick one framework, not three. LlamaIndex Starter Tutorial or LangChain: Build a RAG Agent — one of them. The freeCodeCamp × LangChain course (2.5 hrs) is the deeper path if you have the afternoon.
  5. MCP is a separate topic; treat it that way. Anthropic: Introducing the Model Context Protocol (10 min), then modelcontextprotocol.io's intro (15 min), then build one server with the Quickstart (30–45 min). RAG is about giving a model things to read. MCP is about giving it things to do. They get bundled together constantly and confusing them will cost you a week.

What it assumes: Comfort reading Python and running things in a terminal. This is the first module on the site where that is genuinely required rather than merely helpful.

What commonly goes wrong: Reaching for a vector database on day one. Pinecone, Weaviate and pgvector are all here because eventually you will need one, but a first RAG system over a few hundred documents does not need any of them, and starting there means debugging infrastructure when you should be debugging retrieval quality.

Where to go next: The agent design principles in the Automations & Agents module — particularly Anthropic's Building Effective Agents, which argues against most of what you will have just built.

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28 resources

Image & Video Generation

Who this path is for: Two different readers: one who wants to make good images, and one who wants to know how diffusion works. The module serves both, and they should read it in opposite directions.

  1. If you want to make things: start at the prompting sections. The Flux prompt guide (20 min) and the SDXL realistic-prompt guide (25 min). Then open Hugging Face Spaces and use a model for free before you pay for one.
  2. If you want to understand things: start with the illustration. The Illustrated Stable Diffusion by Jay Alammar (30–45 min). Then Lilian Weng's What are Diffusion Models? (45–60 min), which is where the maths starts and is honest about it.
  3. Then the papers, only if the two above stuck. DDPM (Ho, Jain, Abbeel 2020) and the Latent Diffusion paper. These are the primary sources for everything in the two articles above.
  4. Editing is a separate skill from generating. The Diffusers docs on Inpainting and Image-to-Image (30–45 min each). Most professional use of image models is editing an existing image, not conjuring a new one, and it is the part tutorials skip.
  5. Voice and video carry a consent problem. Before ElevenLabs' cloning docs, read its safety and voice-cloning consent policy in the official-sources module. Cloning a voice you do not have permission to clone is the most common way a hobby project becomes a legal problem.

What it assumes: The prompting path assumes nothing. The mechanism path assumes you can read a probability distribution without flinching.

What commonly goes wrong: Judging a model by a leaderboard. The Artificial Analysis leaderboards here are useful for narrowing a shortlist and misleading as a verdict — they measure aggregate preference on generic prompts, which is not the same question as whether a model can do your specific job.

Where to go next: The official-sources module, where every image and video tool's pricing, privacy and watermarking terms sit together.

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48 resources

Automations & Agents

Who this path is for: People who want work to happen without them, and who are one bad workflow away from learning why that is harder than it looks.

  1. Read the sceptical piece first. Anthropic: Building Effective Agents (25 min). Its core argument — that most tasks want a simple, fixed workflow rather than an autonomous agent — is the most useful thing in this module and it is best absorbed before you are emotionally invested in an agent.
  2. Then learn one platform properly. Pick n8n or Make and stay there. For n8n: the freeCodeCamp beginner's guide (45 min), then n8n Docs: Flow Logic (30 min). For Make: Make Academy's Make Basics path (3 hrs). Learning two platforms halfway is worse than learning one.
  3. Then learn to break it on purpose. n8n Docs: Error Handling (20 min) and How to Use Sub-Workflows (20 min). This is the step everyone skips. An automation without error handling does not fail loudly, it fails silently for three weeks.
  4. Then copy a template that resembles your problem. The RSS, price-monitoring, lead-management and chatbot templates here are all working starting points. Read the workflow before you run it.
  5. Multi-agent last, and sceptically. The IBM multi-agent explainers (15–25 min each) describe a real architecture. Most problems presented as multi-agent problems are one workflow with a bug.

What it assumes: No coding for the platform paths. The voice-agent items (Vapi, Retell) assume you will connect a paid telephony account.

What commonly goes wrong: Automating a process nobody has written down. If the manual version is not documented, the automated version will encode whatever the last person did by accident. Do the Playbooks page's manual level first — that is exactly what it is for.

Where to go next: The Playbooks page, which puts these tools inside a workflow with risks and KPIs attached.

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28 resources

Vibe Coding & No-Code

Who this path is for: Non-engineers building working software, and engineers trying to understand what their non-engineer colleagues are shipping.

  1. Read the definition and the objection together. Karpathy's original tweet (5 min), then Simon Willison's Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (10 min). Willison's distinction — vibe coding means accepting code you have not reviewed — is the one that matters, because it tells you exactly when the practice is fine and when it is not.
  2. Write down what you are building before you prompt for it. The Formlabs or Atlassian PRD templates (15–20 min). A one-page spec is the difference between a tool that generates your app and a tool that generates a plausible app.
  3. Then pick one builder. Lovable's Quick Start, Bolt's intro, v0's docs, or Replit's Agent docs. The Lovable Prompting Bible (20 min) is the most transferable of these — its structure works in any of the four.
  4. Then learn the parts you are pretending not to have. Supabase's Getting Started and its Solutions for Vibe Coders page (20 min), plus Auth.js Getting Started (20 min). Your generated app has a database and an auth system whether or not you chose them.
  5. Then the security minimum. GitHub Docs: Storing your secrets safely (10 min) and Finding and fixing your first code vulnerability (20 min). Non-negotiable before anything is public. A generated app will happily commit an API key.

What it assumes: No prior programming. The freeCodeCamp certifications at the end assume you have decided to become an engineer, which is a different decision.

What commonly goes wrong: Shipping something with a database that anyone can read. Generated apps routinely leave database access rules wide open, and this is not something the model will mention. If your app stores anything about anyone, the Supabase docs on access rules are the page to read before launch, not after.

Where to go next: The Tools pages on this site for a per-tool cost and privacy comparison.

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28 resources

Business Applications & Governance

Who this path is for: Anyone who has to defend an AI decision to someone else — a client, a regulator, a board, a licensing body.

  1. Start with the framework everyone else cites. NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 (30 min), then the Generative AI Profile (20 min). Almost every AI policy you will be handed is derived from these; reading the original means you can tell a real policy from a rewritten one.
  2. Then the playbook, because the framework alone is abstract. NIST AI RMF Playbook (20 min). It converts the framework's functions into actions you can actually assign to someone.
  3. Then a policy you can adapt today. FRSecure's free AI Acceptable Use Policy template (15 min). Adapt it; do not adopt it unread.
  4. If you are in a regulated profession, read your own authority. ABA Formal Opinion 512, the State Bar of California guidance, the NYSBA task force report, and Florida Bar Opinion 24-1 are all here in full. They disagree with each other in places. That disagreement is the actual state of the field, and a summary that smooths it over is worse than useless.
  5. Then read the tool terms as evidence, not as marketing. The training-data and privacy pages for Claude, OpenAI, Gemini and Notion AI are collected in this module precisely so a procurement conversation can cite the vendor's own words.

What it assumes: No legal training. The bar opinions are written for lawyers but are readable, and they are the primary sources on a question this site cannot answer for you.

What commonly goes wrong: Treating a vendor's marketing page as a data-handling commitment. The pricing and privacy pages collected here differ from the landing pages in ways that matter, and the difference is usually the answer to the question you were asked.

Where to go next: The Templates page, whose governance prompts turn these frameworks into a first draft.

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45 resources

AI Coding Agents, Media & Voice Tools — Official Sources

Who this path is for: Anyone comparing tools, and anyone who needs a citation rather than an opinion.

  1. Use this module as a reference, not a reading list. These 45 links are official pricing, privacy, data-usage and policy pages. Nobody should read them front to back. Come here with a question.
  2. For a buying decision, read three pages per tool. The pricing page, the privacy or data-usage page, and — for anything generative — the content or safety policy. Those three answer what it costs, what it does with your input, and what you are allowed to do with the output.
  3. For a data question, the phrasing to look for. Whether your inputs train the model by default, and whether the answer differs by plan. It usually does, and the free tier is usually the permissive one.
  4. For media tools, check provenance. Google DeepMind's SynthID page and Adobe's Firefly IP-indemnification terms are the two documents that most often change a decision, because they answer whether output is detectable and who is liable if it infringes.
  5. Expect these to rot faster than anything else on the site. Pricing and policy pages are the most volatile links in the library. The OpenAI Sora discontinuation notice in this module is here as a reminder that products get withdrawn.

What it assumes: Nothing, beyond a willingness to read terms of service.

What commonly goes wrong: Quoting a price from memory. Every figure in this module has a date attached to it at the source, and none of them has one here — that is deliberate, and it is why the link goes to the vendor rather than to a table on this page.

Where to go next: Nothing. This is the reference floor the rest of the site stands on.

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The full catalogue

Every resource, grouped as it is curated. The search box below is a convenience for people with JavaScript; the complete list is on the page either way.

The ten guide pages on this site 10

Start HereOn this site

Not sure where to begin? Answer what brings you here and how much time you have, and this page routes you to the right pages — no account, no email, no sales pitch.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
HistoryOn this site

A sourced timeline of artificial intelligence from Turing's 1950 thought experiment through today's frontier models — 17 turning points, each with primary-source links.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
ConceptsOn this site

Neural networks, training, attention, tokens, and multimodality explained in plain English — plus a visual map of how AI, machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI actually relate.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
TechniquesOn this site

The real working methods: how to structure a prompt with XML tags, the magic-prompt technique, image and video prompting frameworks, agent design principles, and the vibe-coding workflow — with worked examples.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
Use CasesOn this site

Sixteen concrete, worked use cases for applying generative AI — research synthesis, meeting notes, content drafting, learning, code help, email triage, document comparison, brainstorming, customer support, spreadsheet help, presentations, translation, performance reviews, study guides, document data extraction, and resume tailoring — each with a real example and human-review notes.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
ToolsOn this site

Decision support, not reviews: strengths, limitations, privacy, and pricing considerations for seven general AI assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Meta AI — plus how to build a lean AI stack.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
PlaybooksOn this site

Ten full AI implementation playbooks — manual, semi-automated, and fully-implemented versions of each workflow, with step-by-step build instructions, risks, and KPIs.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
TemplatesOn this site

Eighteen free, ungated prompt templates across Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Client Work, and Governance — each one designed to be pasted directly into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or any LLM, which does the work for you.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
Frontier & AGIOn this site

Where AI stands in mid-2026: the closely matched multi-lab race, the real numbers from Stanford HAI's 2026 AI Index, and the genuinely unresolved debate over artificial general intelligence between named researchers on both sides.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier
AboutOn this site

Why Zero → Frontier exists, the sourcing standard it holds itself to, how it was built, and how to report a broken link or an error.

Free · no accountzero-to-frontier

Foundations & Prompt Engineering 27

Core Concepts

Google's official primer on what generative models are and how to talk to them, for total beginners.

20 minai.google.dev

Hand-animated walkthrough of tokenization, embeddings, and next-token prediction.

27 min3blue1brown.com

How query/key/value self-attention lets tokens 'read' each other.

26 min3blue1brown.com

How text gets broken into tokens before reaching the model.

15 minpromptingguide.ai

What an 'agent' is (model + instructions + tools).

20 minpromptingguide.ai

Anthropic's own 9-chapter hands-on course — the best free substitute for the paid prompting module.

3-5 hrsgithub.com

Anthropic's condensed reference on clarity, examples, XML structuring.

25 minplatform.claude.com

OpenAI's official prompting strategies.

30 minplatform.openai.com

Standard and zero-shot CoT with worked examples.

15 minpromptingguide.ai

In-context learning via examples.

15 minpromptingguide.ai

Using a model to generate/refine other prompts.

20 mincookbook.openai.com

Theoretical grounding for meta-prompting.

15 minpromptingguide.ai

Role, background, task, instructions, constraints as layers.

25 minpromptingguide.ai

Applies the layered context framework to agentic workflows.

20 minpromptingguide.ai

Anthropic's own guide to XML-tag prompt structuring.

15 minplatform.claude.com

Scoping a real problem and building the prompt to deliver it.

45 mingithub.com

Tools

Official onboarding docs covering search, Focus modes, citations.

15 minperplexity.ai

Detailed walkthrough of Focus modes and free-tier limits.

20 minlearnprompting.org

Official community beginner tutorial on scenarios and triggers.

30 mincommunity.make.com

Builds a first scenario end-to-end.

45 minclasscentral.com

Official step-by-step for building a Custom GPT.

20 minhelp.openai.com

The instruction-writing skill underlying CustomGPT design.

15 minhelp.openai.com

Install, run a model from the terminal, call the local API.

20 mindocs.ollama.com

Local LLMs, hardware requirements, Modelfiles.

40 minfreecodecamp.org

Setup/usage guide including temperature and system prompts.

20 minlearnprompting.org

Build a chat prompt and test Gemini models free in-browser.

20 minai.google.dev

Complete tour of AI Studio.

26 minclasscentral.com

RAG & MCP 33

RAG & Retrieval

The five-stage retrieve-augment-generate process.

15 minibm.com

Conversational episode breaking down RAG fundamentals.

15 minibm.com

IBM Research's original explainer.

10 minresearch.ibm.com

How embeddings represent meaning as dense vectors.

20 minpinecone.io

How semantic search differs from keyword search.

20 minpinecone.io

Full step-by-step build of a local RAG pipeline.

45-60 minyoutube.com

Indexing, retrieval mechanics, query translation, generation.

2.5 hrsfreecodecamp.org

Builds a minimal RAG system in Python using Ollama.

30 minhuggingface.co

Series covering each RAG design decision.

3+ hrsyoutube.com

Official quickstart for the API/Playground interface.

20 minplatform.openai.com

Test Gemini prompts and generate API code, free.

15 minai.google.dev

The free Deep Research feature that browses and synthesizes cited reports.

10 minsupport.google.com

Claude Projects — free workspaces for uploading knowledge.

10 minsupport.claude.com

Step-by-step for creating a Project and uploading files.

10 minsupport.claude.com

Free Community Edition with full RAG pipeline and agent features.

30-60 mindify.ai

Official open-source repo for self-hosting Dify free.

30 mingithub.com

Run LLMs entirely on your own machine, private and free.

15 mindocs.ollama.com

LlamaIndex's own '5 lines of code' starter tutorial.

20 mindevelopers.llamaindex.ai

Same tutorial wired to local models via Ollama.

20 mindevelopers.llamaindex.ai

Official docs tutorial on indexing and retrieval-generation.

30-45 mindocs.langchain.com

Notebook series stripping RAG down to fundamentals.

1-2 hrsgithub.com

Central free hub of articles on vector databases.

20-30 minpinecone.io

Official quickstart for the open-source Weaviate vector database.

15-30 mindocs.weaviate.io

Free Postgres extension turning Postgres into a vector store.

20-30 mingithub.com

How a reranker improves RAG output quality.

15 mindocs.cohere.com

MCP & Connecting AI to Tools

Anthropic's original announcement — primary source.

10 minanthropic.com

Official intro page: the USB-C analogy.

15 minmodelcontextprotocol.io

MCP architecture and transport methods.

20 minibm.com

Official quickstart building a working MCP server.

30-45 minmodelcontextprotocol.io

Wiring an MCP client to locally running servers.

20 minmodelcontextprotocol.io

Official catalogue of reference/community MCP servers.

20-30 minmodelcontextprotocol.io

Full open-source repo of MCP servers (Notion, Gmail, Slack, GitHub).

30 mingithub.com

Beginner-friendly video on MCP setup.

20-30 minyoutube.com

Image & Video Generation 28

How Diffusion Models Work

Free four-unit course teaching diffusion theory from scratch.

6-8 hrs/unithuggingface.co

30+ diagrams showing how CLIP, UNet, and the decoder work together.

30-45 minjalammar.github.io

The original Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models paper.

1-2 hrsarxiv.org

The official Stable Diffusion research paper.

1 hrommer-lab.com

Deep technical walkthrough of forward/reverse diffusion.

45-60 minlilianweng.github.io

Build and train a small diffusion model from scratch.

1 hrdeeplearning.ai

Line-by-line annotated PyTorch implementation of a DDPM.

1-1.5 hrshuggingface.co

Constantly-updated Elo ranking of image models.

10-15 minartificialanalysis.ai

Image Generation & Prompting

Official guide to masked inpainting with open checkpoints.

30-45 minhuggingface.co

Conditioning generation on an input image plus prompt.

20-30 minhuggingface.co

SDXL's dual text-encoder architecture, and how to prompt each encoder separately.

20 minhuggingface.co

Natural-language prompting for Flux Schnell/Dev.

20 minnebius.com

Community breakdown of keyword-style prompting.

25 mincivitai.com

Thousands of free browser-based demos of SDXL, Flux, etc.

ongoinghuggingface.co

Video Generation & Prompting

Free intro course covering the AI filmmaking pipeline.

2-3 hrscuriousrefuge.com

Updated tutorials on the latest video models.

ongoingyoutube.com

Elo rankings of Kling, Veo, Seedance, Runway Gen.

15-20 minartificialanalysis.ai

Cinematic language: camera moves, lighting, shot type.

20 minletsenhance.io

Turning smartphone photos/video into 3D models.

30 mintomsguide.com

Practice text-to-video and image-to-video for free.

ongoingpixlr.com

Voice/Avatar Cloning

Free-tier-compatible guide to cloning a voice instantly.

20-30 minelevenlabs.io

Instant vs. professional cloning explained.

15 minelevenlabs.io

Free-tier text-to-speech and multilingual generation.

15 minelevenlabs.io

Beginner tutorial for the free-tier cloning flow.

15-20 mintechsifted.com

Open-Source Models (Hugging Face)

Hands-on unit teaching the open-source Diffusers library.

3-4 hrshuggingface.co

Flagship free course on using open-source models.

6-8 hrs/chhuggingface.co

Selecting and deploying open Hugging Face models.

~2 hrsdeeplearning.ai

Free searchable directory of open-source models.

ongoinghuggingface.co

Automations & Agents 48

Automation Fundamentals

Vendor-neutral explainer of RPA.

15 minmicrosoft.com

Plain-language breakdown of RPA use cases.

15 minsalesforce.com

Official tutorials and feature walkthroughs.

ongoingyoutube.com

Install n8n, build a real workflow, deploy to production.

45 minfreecodecamp.org

Official reference for triggers, branching, loops.

30 mindocs.n8n.io

3-hour beginner-to-intermediate crash course.

3 hrsclasscentral.com

Free self-paced academy covering modules and functions.

3 hrsacademy.make.com

Official foundation course on the scenario builder.

30-45 minacademy.make.com

Make basics through building working workflows.

1 hrclasscentral.com

Create cloud flows and agent flows.

1-1.5 hrslearn.microsoft.com

Central hub linking every official Power Automate path.

self-pacedlearn.microsoft.com

The RPA/desktop-automation side of Power Automate.

1.5 hrslearn.microsoft.com

Building Specific Automations

Reads RSS, summarizes with GPT, archives/notifies.

30-45 minn8n.io

Runs offline with a local, free LLM.

30-45 minn8n.io

Beginner-narrated build log of a first AI news workflow.

20 minmedium.com

Scraping patterns for competitor/product data.

30 minfirecrawl.dev

Scrapes competitor prices and alerts on changes.

30-45 minn8n.io

Benchmarks products/prices across sources.

30-45 minn8n.io

Automating lead capture and CRM syncing.

30 minblog.n8n.io

A lead-capture-to-CRM pipeline with notifications. Medium member-only.

20 mindevelopers-group.medium.com

Official lead-management templates to clone and adapt.

30 minn8n.io

Building an AI-powered support chatbot with memory.

45 minblog.n8n.io

No-code build of a support chatbot with an LLM. Medium member-only.

30 minmedium.com

Embedding a custom-branded chat widget on any website.

30-45 mincommunity.n8n.io

Build then embed and deploy a chatbot live.

45 mingrowwstacks.com

Error Trigger nodes and error workflows.

20 mindocs.n8n.io

Calling one workflow from another for reusable logic.

20 mintheowllogic.com

Agent Design Principles

Anthropic's canonical guide to workflows vs. agents.

25 minanthropic.com

Rules for designing narrow, well-documented tools.

10 minanthropic.com

Building checkpoints where a human approves an agent's step.

30 minibm.com

What separates agentic systems from simple automations.

15 minibm.com

Structured Anthropic-run course on MCP fundamentals.

1-2 hrsanthropic.skilljar.com

Multi-Agent Systems & Voice Agents

MAS architectures, structures, and real use cases.

25 minibm.com

How an orchestrator agent coordinates sub-agents.

15 minibm.com

How agents share context and hand off tasks.

15 minmedium.com

Building a true multi-agent system inside n8n.

1 hrblog.n8n.io

A 'Jerry'-style AI employee: email, calendar, CRM.

45 minlilys.ai

Email, calendar, and CRM combined into one assistant.

45 minn8n.io

An agent that answers calls and books calendar events.

45 minn8n.io

Orchestrator + research agent + writer agent build.

1 hrhussamkazim.com

Reducing token waste and structuring agent handoffs.

20 mindev.to

Official docs introducing flows and nodes.

20 mindocs.gumloop.com

Hands-on course with a free-credit tier.

1 hrgumloop.com

Documentation covering agent concepts and triggers.

20 mindocs.lindy.ai

Building a first Lindy agent on the free plan.

30 minlindy.ai

Free quickstart for building a voice agent from zero.

20 mindocs.vapi.ai

Step-by-step video on Vapi's free trial tier.

15-20 minyoutube.com

Fields inbound calls and books calendar appointments.

45 minn8n.io

Vibe Coding & No-Code 28

Concepts & Best Practices

Primary-source definition of vibe coding.

5 minx.com

Clarifies what vibe coding is/isn't.

10 minsimonwillison.net

How the term evolved into a professional workflow.

10 mincoderabbit.ai

The describe-generate-preview-refine loop, live.

30 minclasscentral.com

Free downloadable PRD template and guide.

20 minformlabs.com

Structured, ready-to-copy PRD template.

15 minatlassian.com

Spotting and patching a real vulnerability.

20 mindocs.github.com

Keeping API keys/secrets out of committed code.

10 mindocs.github.com

Tools

Free Hobby plan, no card required.

15 mincursor.com

What Bolt is and how to go from prompt to published app.

20 minsupport.bolt.new

Official getting-started guide for the free tier.

15 mindocs.lovable.dev

Writing effective prompts for a prompt-to-app builder.

20 minlovable.dev

Official docs for v0's free-tier AI UI generator.

15 minvercel.com

Hands-on tutorial building a real app with v0.

15 mincodecademy.com

Describe an app in plain language and let Agent build it.

20 mindocs.replit.com

Free tier with unlimited Tab completions.

15 mindocs.windsurf.com

Agentic AI pair-programming/debugging workflows.

15 mindocs.github.com

Setup and the core agentic terminal workflow.

15 mindocs.claude.com

Building Blocks (Frontend/Backend/DB/API/Auth)

100% free full-stack certification.

self-pacedfreecodecamp.org

Node/Express APIs certification.

15-25 hrsfreecodecamp.org

HTML/CSS/JS through Node/Express/MongoDB, end to end.

7 hrsclasscentral.com

Free Postgres database + backend instantly.

20 minsupabase.com

How v0/Lovable/Bolt connect to Supabase.

15 minsupabase.com

Free, open-source authentication for Next.js.

20 minauthjs.dev

Deployment & Version Control

Repos, branches, commits, and pull requests.

20 mindocs.github.com

Version control with practical command examples.

30 minfreecodecamp.org

Deploy globally with git push.

20 minvercel.com

Shipping an app to a live URL.

15 minnextjs.org

Business Applications & Governance 28

Research Tools — Official Sources

Official data-use and training-opt-out terms for Perplexity's answer engine.

10 minperplexity.ai

Confirmed free-tier notebook, source, and daily-chat caps, straight from Google.

8 minsupport.google.com

What's free vs. paid for Elicit's 138M+ paper systematic-review tool.

8 minelicit.com

Confirmed free-tier Pro messages, Deep reviews, and Study Snapshot caps.

8 minhelp.consensus.app

Google's own page on the agentic multi-source report-generation feature.

8 mingemini.google.com

Meetings & Knowledge Tools — Official Sources

Free-tier minutes, imports, and AI Chat query limits, direct from Otter.

8 minotter.ai

Free-tier storage minutes, AI credits, and meeting-length caps.

8 minfireflies.ai

Fathom's 'free forever' recording tier and its stated limits.

8 minfathom.ai

The only major notetaker with no bot in the call — free-tier terms.

8 mingranola.ai

How Notion's Enterprise Search/AI Connectors handle your data by default.

10 minnotion.com

Writing Tools — Official Sources

Anthropic's own explanation of Claude's training-data defaults and opt-out.

8 minprivacy.claude.com

ChatGPT's official data-use and opt-out policy.

10 minopenai.com

The confirmed exact free-tier prompt cap (100/month) for Grammarly's AI features.

5 minsupport.grammarly.com

Default training/human-review settings for the Gemini app and Docs' 'Help me write.'

10 minsupport.google.com

Coding Tools — Official Sources

Hobby-tier terms for Cursor's VS Code fork with agent mode.

8 mincursor.com

Free-tier completions/chat allowance and March 2026 training-data policy update.

8 mingithub.com

Starter-tier terms for Replit's autonomous full-stack Agent.

8 minreplit.com

Confirmed exact free-tier credit and message-per-day caps.

5 minv0.app

Confirmed exact free daily/monthly credit caps for full-stack app generation.

5 minlovable.dev

Confirmed exact free-tier token caps for StackBlitz's in-browser app builder.

5 minbolt.new

AI Governance — Primary Sources

The official, free, voluntary U.S. framework this site's policy template is built around.

30 minnvlpubs.nist.gov

NIST's own practical, actionable companion to the AI RMF.

20 minairc.nist.gov

NIST's 2024 supplement addressing generative-AI-specific risks.

20 minnvlpubs.nist.gov

A genuinely free, no-login starter policy template for small businesses.

15 minfrsecure.com

AI Governance — Regulated Professions

The first ABA ethics opinion on generative AI: competence, confidentiality, candor, supervision.

25 minamericanbar.org

California's official practical guidance for lawyers using generative AI.

20 mincalbar.ca.gov

NYSBA's April 2024 comprehensive report and recommendations on AI in legal practice.

30 minnysba.org

Florida's official ethics opinion on lawyers' generative AI use.

15 minfloridabar.org

AI Coding Agents, Media & Voice Tools — Official Sources 45

Coding Agents — Official Sources

Setup, sandboxing model, and surfaces (CLI, IDE, cloud, GitHub) for OpenAI's coding agent.

15 minplatform.openai.com

Token-based credit pricing for Codex across ChatGPT plans and the API.

8 mindevelopers.openai.com

Confirms API/Business/Enterprise data is not used for training by default.

10 minhelp.openai.com

Technical docs for Anthropic's agentic coding tool across terminal, IDE, and desktop.

15 mincode.claude.com

Exact training/retention policy differences between consumer and commercial Claude Code accounts.

10 mincode.claude.com

Official setup guide and stated limitations for Anthropic's desktop file/task agent.

12 minsupport.claude.com

Anthropic's own permissions and safety guidance for Cowork's file-editing capabilities.

10 minsupport.claude.com

Free/Pro/Teams/Enterprise terms for Cognition's agentic code editor.

8 minwindsurf.com

Source code and documentation for the open-source, model-agnostic coding agent.

10 mingithub.com

Exactly what Cline does and doesn't collect, and how to opt out.

5 mindocs.cline.bot

Confirmed exact free-tier message/integration credit caps for Wix's no-code app builder.

8 minbase44.com

Data handling, SOC 2/ISO 27001 certification, and EU/UK residency terms.

10 minbase44.com

Free/Pro/Max/Teams terms for Cognition's autonomous software engineer.

8 mindevin.ai

Google's agentic development platform with Editor and Manager surfaces, launched with Gemini 3.

12 minantigravity.google

Confirmed exact free-tier task and concurrency caps for Google's async coding agent.

5 minjules.google

Image Generation — Official Sources

Subscription tiers and Stealth Mode terms; confirms no free tier on Discord/web.

8 mindocs.midjourney.com

Confirms all prompts/images train Midjourney's models by default, no opt-out.

10 mindocs.midjourney.com

Product overview for GPT-image conversational generation and editing.

8 minopenai.com

Technical docs for 'Nano Banana' (Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) and Imagen.

12 minai.google.dev

How Google's invisible AI-content watermark works across image, video, and audio outputs.

10 mindeepmind.google

Generative-credit tiers and pricing for Adobe's 'commercially safe' generative model family.

8 minadobe.com

Exact scope of Adobe's IP indemnification — which features/plans it covers and excludes.

15 minhelpx.adobe.com

Confirmed exact free-tier daily token allowance (150/day) for Canva-owned Leonardo.

8 minleonardo.ai

Training-use terms for public vs. private generations, and the free-tier public-content license.

10 minleonardo.ai

Video Generation — Official Sources

Confirmed exact free-tier one-time credit allowance for Runway's Gen-4/4.5 video suite.

8 minrunwayml.com

Google's AI filmmaking studio built on the Veo model family.

10 minlabs.google

Free daily credit allowance and paid tiers for Kuaishou's video generation platform.

8 minklingai.com

Confirmed exact free-tier video count/length caps for HeyGen's AI avatar platform.

8 minheygen.com

States user video/voice/face data trains HeyGen's models by default, opt-out via email.

10 minheygen.com

Free (Basic) tier terms and paid tiers for corporate-training avatar video generation.

8 minsynthesia.io

Official notice and timeline for the 2026 shutdown of OpenAI's Sora video product.

5 minhelp.openai.com

Voice & Audio — Official Sources

Confirmed exact free-tier credit allowance (10,000/month) for TTS, cloning, and dubbing.

8 minelevenlabs.io

Identity-verification and consent requirements before cloning any voice.

10 minelevenlabs.io

Confirmed exact free-tier daily time cap (2 hours) for ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.

8 minhelp.openai.com

Free vs. Premium tier feature comparison for Speechify's text-to-speech app.

5 minspeechify.com

Confirmed exact free-tier daily credit allowance for Suno's AI song generator.

8 minsuno.com

Confirms user content trains Suno's models by default with no self-serve opt-out.

10 minsuno.com

Confirmed exact free daily/monthly credit pool for Udio's music generator.

5 minhelp.udio.com

Google's free browser-based music generation tool, powered by the Lyria model family.

5 minlabs.google

General Assistants — Official Sources

Free vs. Microsoft 365 Premium terms for Microsoft's everyday AI assistant.

8 minmicrosoft.com

Default training settings and opt-out mechanics for consumer Copilot.

8 minsupport.microsoft.com

Free tier and SuperGrok/X Premium terms for xAI's assistant.

8 minx.ai

Default training-use terms; confirms logged-out users cannot opt out at all.

10 minx.ai

Overview of Meta AI across WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger.

8 minai.meta.com

Meta's disclaimers and terms governing Meta AI use across its apps.

10 minfacebook.com
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