Side quests: the AI tools you already have
Short, plain-English walkthroughs for real AI tools. No coding needed: tick each step as you go, and finishing a guide earns its badge. Technical details are tucked away for the curious.
by Anthropic · About 90 min
Claude Code
Claude Code is Claude with hands: it reads the files in a folder you choose, makes and changes them, and runs small jobs on your computer. This guide gets you started, then explains the ideas behind it, from CLAUDE.md to skills, subagents and the context window, so you know what you are actually doing.
by OpenAI · About 90 min
Codex
Codex is OpenAI’s agent for working on files: point it at a folder, describe what you want, and it reads, writes and changes files there, then shows you exactly what it changed. This guide gets you started, then explains the ideas behind it, from AGENTS.md to skills, subagents and the context window.
by OpenAI · About 60 min
Dots
A dot is an always-on assistant inside ChatGPT, with its own little avatar and its own computer in the cloud. You hand it ongoing responsibilities and it keeps working between your chats. This guide sets one up, then explains how it remembers, what it can reach, and how to keep it in check.
by xAI · About 60 min
Grok Bot
Grok Bot lets you create named AI teammates, called Bots, each with a job. They work on a computer in the cloud and keep going while you are away. This guide hires your first Bot, then explains the shared computer, memory, skills and routines, and how to keep it all safe.
by TypeSafe AI · About 60 min
Jev
Jev is not a chatbot. You give it a piece of text and a few multiple-choice questions, and in under a second it picks answers from the options you wrote and tells you how sure it is. This guide gets you asking, then explains how to read its confidence and design questions it answers well.