AI
BUILD
LAB

Agent Native OS
Workshop.

Cohort 2 · May 31, 2026
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AI Build Lab // Workshop

Build agent fleets
that make you money.

You walk out building your Morning Brief, block by block, on a fleet that works while you sleep. Then you keep building it all week and into Summer Camp.

4D · build the blocks today 8D · go deeper + summer camp Cohort 2 · 143 builders · ~50/50 across tracks
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Opening // Tracks

Who's in the room

4D Track
  • ·First time in Claude Code, or early experience.
  • ·Here to see what's possible and leave with working blocks.
  • ·You build the MVP of every block today.
4D ends here
A working Morning Brief, delivered daily, plus a clear map of the whole system.
Default: if unsure, you're 4D. Switch any time, no questions asked.
8D Track
  • ·You live in the terminal. Claude Code is a daily tool.
  • ·You want to go deeper, not just get it running.
  • ·You customize each block and preview the summer-camp moves.
8D ends here
The deeper build, not the MVP: an extensible fleet, live tracing, memory merged across machines, an automated multi-channel brief.
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Opening // Value

You did not buy the morning brief.
You bought the architecture.

The morning brief is one expression of what this architecture can do. The repo has hundreds more, and your Claude knows how to install all of them.

A fleet that works while you sleep

Sub-agents, background agents, team agents. All yours.

A repo that keeps teaching you

Blueprints, guides, and a Cairns knowledge vault.

A Morning Brief you keep building

Start it today. Expand it all week and into Summer Camp.

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Opening // Track record

This isn't theory. It's a trade school.

1,900+
builders shipped real agentic products
18
cohorts run since 2024
15+
countries represented · 111+ use cases in the repo
AI Build Lab onstage, full auditorium
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Opening // Proof

Last cohort walked out with these.

Real morning briefs. Real deliveries. Real machines. By tonight you start yours.

Morning briefs students shipped: Telegram, email, web, Spanish
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Opening // Who's teaching

Not professors. Builders.

Sara and Tyler onstage and building
Sara

Co-founder, strategy. The vision + the gains.

Tyler

Co-founder, lead instructor. The architecture + the build.

Hunter

PM, teacher, strategist. Keeps the day on the rails.

Wade

The LMS + your run-of-show. Where every prompt lives.

Michael

GitHub + data. Your go-to when version control bites.

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Opening // The big picture

This is the whole system. You bought all of it.

Seven layers, one path: Repo → Harnesses → Orchestration → Agent Native OS → Blueprint → Growth OS → Outcome. Today you install the first layers as your morning brief. Summer Camp takes it all the way to a business that pays.

Arrow keys walk the seven layers · press L for the portability lens · hover a node for its role.
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Opening // Your home base

Everything today lives in one place.

Wade built your portal: a visual map and teacher for the agent-native-os repo. Every prompt, every skill, the full run of show. You have exclusive access. Open it now and keep it open all day.

learn.aibuildlab.com/agent-native-os
[ Wade demos the LMS portal live ]
drop the Workshop Day screenshot here
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Here's the day

Fleets
Make you money
Your first sub-agent swarm.
Security
+ Observability
Keys vaulted, runs traced.
Data
Connect it
Your sources wired in.
Knowledge + Memory
Your fleet remembers
Cairns 101: build your second brain on disk.
Capstone
The Morning Brief
Every block snaps together into one deployed brief.
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Opening // Timeline

Today's schedule

Time (ET) Section Node
10:30-11:00Welcome + VisionThe map: what you're building + why
11:00-11:35Sub-Agents + FleetsFirst sub-agent swarm
11:35-11:45Short Break10 minutes
11:45-12:20Security + ObservabilityKeys vaulted + runs traced
12:20-12:55Connecting Your DataSources wired to the brief
12:55-1:30Knowledge + MemoryCairns 101: teach + demo the layers
1:30-1:40Short Break10 minutes
1:40-2:15Build the One CairnYour second brain, on disk
2:15-2:35Lunch20 min (working lunch + Q&A)
2:35-3:30Wire + Deploy: Morning BriefThe deployed brief
3:30-4:00Close + Open Q&AShowcase + what's next

Doors 10:00 AM ET · wrap ~4:00 PM ET · two short breaks + a working lunch. (PT folks: 7 AM start.)

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Opening // How today works

We build the morning brief
block by block.

Every section follows the same rhythm. Teach the idea, Demo it live, then you Build the block yourself.

Teach

The idea, and why it matters. No terminal yet.

Demo

We run the skill live. You watch a block get built.

Build

You run the same skill. 4D gets the MVP, 8D goes deeper.

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Opening // What we're doing today

One morning brief. A whole fleet behind it.

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Pre-flight

Set up Claude Code
like a pro.

No git hell. Everyone starts level.

Pre-flight // Level-set

Get your machine ready

One command checks it all
cd ~/GitHub/agent-native-os
bash verify.sh   # every line green = ready
The 6 checkpoints
  • Claude Max active
  • Claude desktop + Code CLI working
  • GitHub CLI authenticated (gh auth status)
  • agent-native-os repo cloned
  • /personalize run, CLAUDE.md is yours
  • (bonus) first connector wired
4D

Leave permission prompts on. Watch what Claude wants to do before you let it.

8D

Auto mode + bypass permissions, with hooks as the safety net.

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Welcome + Fleets

Build agent fleets
that make you money.

Teach
Four ways to put agents to work
Sub-agents
  • ·Parallel workers, one context each.
  • ·Each gets a scoped job + an output contract.
  • ·They all report back to the lead.
Background agents
  • ·Long-running, keep working after you leave.
  • ·Good for builds, scrapes, and watchers.
  • ·You check the result, not the clock.
Team agents
  • ·A fleet with named roles.
  • ·They coordinate toward one goal.
  • ·A lead splits the work and merges it back.
JUST SHIPPED!
Workflows
  • ·Deterministic orchestration: loops, fan-out, pipelines.
  • ·For scale a single chat cannot hold.
  • !Experimental. Can fan out to hundreds of agents - powerful, but expensive if you don't harness it.
Why it matters
This is the unlock: work happens in parallel, while you sleep.
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DEMO

Sub-agents · Background agents · Agent fleets

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Build
Your turn

Run a research swarm on your own idea.

4D · paste the swarm prompt

Paste the Research Swarm prompt from your run-of-show. It spawns three sub-agents in parallel: web, your repo, your transcripts. Then it synthesizes one consensus brief.

You get
A brief on your own idea, built by three agents working at once, with sources.
8D · make it yours + recurring

Customize the roles and model tiers (Haiku workers, a stronger synthesizer). Then wire the swarm onto a real recurring job so it runs without you.

You get
A custom fleet that returns something the default could not, on a schedule.

The exact prompt lives on the LMS Workshop Day page. No new command to memorize.

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Short Break
10 Minutes

You just ran your first fleet.

Next: lock the keys so it is safe to let it work on its own.

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Security + Observability

How to trust
your fleet.

How To Trust
The Fleet.

Security + Observability. Here is how we keep it safe to let agents work.

Permissions + SAFE mode

It asks before it acts. You promote a project to auto only once you trust it.

Keys in a vault

Secrets live in Infisical, pulled at runtime. Never in plaintext files.

Backups + git

Version control plus one backup, so any mistake is cheap to undo.

Langfuse tracing

See every agent action, token, and cost. Nothing happens in the dark.

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DEMO

Security and Observability

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Build
Your turn

Lock down your fleet.

4D · load your keys into Infisical
infisical login
# add your keys in the dashboard
infisical run -- claude
  • 1.Sign in to Infisical and add your API keys in the dashboard.
  • 2.Launch Claude through infisical run so keys load at runtime.
Done when
No secrets in plaintext. Keys pulled from the vault.
8D · add live tracing IN-ROOM DEMO

We wire Langfuse live: Stop + PostToolUse hooks that trace every agent action, token, and cost. Watch it in the room, take the pattern home.

  • ·Nothing your fleet does happens in the dark.
Done when
Every run is traced and observable.
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Connecting Your Data

Your AI can see
your world.

Teach
Two ways in

Tools come in two shapes.

MCP

A persistent connection: Gmail, Slack, Drive. The fleet reads and writes live.

CLI

A one-shot tool the agent calls: fetch, transform, post. Cheap and composable.

Rule of thumb
Don't wire 47 tools. Wire the 3 your brief actually needs.
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DEMO

Connecting your sh*t

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Build
Your turn

Wire your first source.

4D · one source, one question
  • 1.Pick one source you actually use (Gmail or Calendar).
  • 2.Wire it in.
  • 3.Ask it one real question.
Done when
One real source answers one real question.
8D · go wide
  • 1.Wire three sources at once.
  • 2.Give each its own sub-agent.
  • 3.Have them all feed one brief.
Done when
Three sources feed one brief.
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Section 4 · 12:55 PM
Knowledge + Memory

Your fleet
remembers.

Cairns 101: the foundational concept of the whole system.

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Section 4 // The problem

Every session, your agent starts from zero.

It is not a missing-data problem. It is an untiered-data problem. You either tell it too little or you drown it in everything.

Too little

No memory. It forgets yesterday, re-asks what you already answered, repeats old mistakes.

Too much

Dump every transcript into context. It drowns in noise, misses the signal, and you pay for every token, every call.

Just right

Tiered recall. Load a tiny map always, fetch detail only when the question needs it.

The fix
Cairns: a tiered memory the fleet can actually carry from session to session.
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Section 4 // The idea

A cairn marks the path.

Tyler stacks stones on hikes with his family. A cairn is that stack: a marker that tells the next traveler which way the path goes.

Not the whole mountain. Just the marker you need to keep moving. One source, one cairn.

A stone cairn
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Section 4 // Cairns 101 · the foundational concept

Three tiers. Load light, drill deep.

L1 routes.   L2 summarizes densely.   L3 proves.

L1 · Waypoints

~16 categories, ~6k tokens. The map. 60-70% of questions stop here.

ALWAYS LOADED
L2 · Cards

Dense 85-135 word summaries. The catalog the map points into.

ON DEMAND
L3 · Evidence

The raw source, never edited. The exact quote, with provenance.

ONLY IF NEEDED
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Section 4 // How retrieval works

Every agent asks the Librarian.

Start at L1

The Librarian fans out across every cairn at once. Most questions are answered right here.

Drill if needed

Need more? Pull the L2 card. Need the exact line? Fetch L3. It stops as soon as it has enough.

Always with proof

Every answer comes back with its source: which cairn, which tier, which line.

~6k tokens loaded vs ~600k dumped.

Same answer. A fraction of the cost. None of the noise.

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Section 4 // How a cairn is made

There's an input of information, the repo chunks it, helps build the thing, and then the next agent knows where and what it is.

Hunter

Capture

A source comes in. The system pulls it and summarizes it.

You approve

It proposes what to remember. Nothing hits L1 without your yes.

Now it knows

Saved, searchable, and ready the next time you ask.

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DEMO

Memory Layers + Cairn System

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Build
Section 4 // Your turn
4D · Build your cairns foundation
/build-agent-conversations-cairn

Reads your recent Claude conversations. You approve the L1 waypoints. L1 + L2 + L3 land in your vault.

Done when
Your second brain exists, on disk.
8D · what the cairn unlocks as it scales
  • 7DObsidian: a visual graph your agents read and write.
  • 8DPostgres + pgvector: real semantic search at scale.
  • 9DGraphRAG: entity + relation graph, answers that trace their path.
  • 10-12DNeo4j: a production knowledge graph, multi-hop reasoning.
Done when
One brain, merged across machines, with graph traversal.
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Explore the Stack.

6D
One Cairn (local files)
The base you built today: searchable memory on disk.
7D
Obsidian
Visual graph + a UI your agents read and write.
8D
Postgres + pgvector
Real vector search: SQL over your memory at scale.
9D
GraphRAG
Entity + relation graph: answers that trace their path.
10-12D
Neo4j
Production knowledge graph: Cypher, multi-hop, graph ML.
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Section 4 // Where this is going

More than an email digest.

The morning brief is not the finish line. It is the first tile of your Agent OS Dashboard - one surface where your whole fleet reports in.

Today: a brief

Email, calendar, your top priorities. Pulled together and delivered before you sit down.

Next: a dashboard

Every agent, every source, one pane. What changed, what needs you, what the fleet already handled.

The ceiling: Pepper

Tyler's command center: a morning brief that grew into a full operations board. You will see it later.

The thread
Build the brief today. It becomes the dashboard you run your week from.
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LUNCH

Back in 20 minutes.

Keep working on your own.
DM us questions in the chat.
Jump into the breakout room to ask live.
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Putting It All Together

The Morning
Brief.

You built it all day. Now watch it snap together.

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Teach
Capstone // The reveal

Every block you built today snaps into the brief.

1
Fleet / swarm
The research that fills the brief.
2
Security: Infisical keys
Vercel + Supabase, safely wired.
3
Data: your sources
Gmail, calendar, and the tools you wired.
4
Knowledge: your Cairn
The memory that gives the brief context.
Morning Brief
Assembled, deployed, and delivered to your Daily Dashboard.
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DEMO

Ship the Morning Brief, live.

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BUILD

Your turn: run it.

/build-morning-brief gmail,calendar  (+ ~/briefing-config.md PRD)

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After the brief

What comes
next?

You shipped one brief. Here is the ceiling it climbs toward.

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8D · the ceiling
The Agent OS Dashboard

Your brief becomes a command center.

Not a feed you skim. A surface that shows what changed, what needs a decision, and what your fleet already handled. Tyler's Pepper board is the live example.

Signal
All sources, one pane

Email, calendar, Slack, iMessage, GitHub: every channel summarized and ranked before you open a single app.

Memory
Context that follows you

Your Cairns feed it directly. It already knows what you decided last week and who you owe a reply.

Action
Fleet status + next moves

What ran overnight, what worked, what needs a human call. One click to approve, delegate, or dig in.

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LL3 - Earn // The framework

The morning brief is one expression.
The Agent Native OS is the full framework.

Point it at any business. The same five modules show up every time.

01
Communication
Talk to the client in the channels they already use. No new app.
02
Intelligence
Messy inputs become structured, queryable context.
03
Production
The fleet produces the deliverable the business sells.
04
Trust & Verification
Every output is sourced, audited, defensible. Math shown.
05
Pipeline
Every engagement surfaces the next one.
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Where this goes

SUMMER
CAMP!

Take the whole stack all the way: ship production agents, build a real business on it.

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Summer Camp // What you walk out with

You leave with a working Agent Native OS
for one real business.

Build
A working Agent Native OS
All 5 modules installed and running for one real business: Communication, Intelligence, Production, Trust & Verification, Pipeline.
Sell / Run / Replicate
A reusable Blueprint
Packaged so you can sell it, run it, or replicate it across a niche. One blueprint, ten plumbers.
The transferable skill
The judgment
How to deconstruct any business into the 5 modules and decide what to build. That skill travels everywhere.

Runs on as little as Claude Code. Scales to a full self-hosted fleet we share openly. The framework meets you at whatever level your stack is at.

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Your unlock // Exclusive access

Your visual map + teacher for the repo.

Everything today, and everything you did not get to, lives here. Your private guide to the agent-native-os repo: prompts, skills, the full run of show. Copy, paste, keep building.

learn.aibuildlab.com/agent-native-os
[ Workshop Day portal screenshot ]
drop the LMS screenshot here
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The cohort, waving

SEE YOU IN
THE SLACKS!

Post what you make in #agent-native-os.
Keep asking questions. Keep building.
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Short Break
Back in 10

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