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Lesson 65: Give it context
Level 8, Meet Your AI Coding Agent. Files, what you tried, and the exact error. The new word: context. It follows lesson 64, Vague or clear?. Next comes lesson 66, Small steps.
What the lesson explains
Give it context. The agent is new to your house. Show it around.
What helps most. Which files, what you tried, and the exact error. which files; what you tried; the error exactly.
What you do first
Which one helps?. Which message helps the agent most? The answer: "index.html shows a broken picture. The img says src="cat2.png", but the file is images/cat.png.".
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 66 finds the same files.
What you practise
Try it, "Which one helps?": Which message helps the agent most? The answer: "index.html shows a broken picture. The img says src="cat2.png", but the file is images/cat.png.". Then: Red text says: NameError: name scroe is not defined. What do you send? The answer: "The red text, word for word".
Challenge, "A bug report": Write a prompt about the broken cat picture. One clear prompt: "In my-site, index.html, the cat picture does not show. The img says cat2.png but the file is images/cat.png. Fix the path. Done when I can see the cat."
What PlayBuddy and PlayType say
PlayBuddy: "The agent is new to your house. Show it around first."
PlayType: "Got red text? Paste the error. It is the best clue."
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 3 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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