# AI Education — BrainyxAI

Canonical: https://brainyxai.co.za/education

Original operator tracks on-site. Anthropic Academy courses stay on anthropic.skilljar.com (catalog links only).

## Claude Operator Track

From first chat to agents, Claude Code, APIs, and MCP — taught for people who ship systems.

Path: https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude

Outcomes:
- Run high-signal Claude chats with briefs, constraints, and iteration loops
- Choose Chat vs Projects vs Cowork vs Claude Code for the job
- Use CLAUDE.md / project context and verification habits that stick
- Orient to the Messages API, model tiers, and tool-using agents
- Connect MCP safely and know when RAG beats stuffing the prompt

Lessons (titles + teasers; full bodies on-site):
1. [Meet Claude — capabilities, limits, access](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/meet-claude) — Treat Claude as a strong generalist teammate with no lived context until you give it some.
2. [Briefs, prompts, and the iteration loop](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/briefs-and-prompts) — Great outputs come from clear jobs, constraints, and ruthless iteration — not magic words.
3. [Projects, memory, and durable context](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/projects-and-context) — Stop re-explaining your company every chat — put standing instructions where Claude can reuse them.
4. [Chat vs Cowork — when files are in the loop](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/chat-vs-cowork) — Chat thinks with you; Cowork-style modes work against a folder and connectors with permissions.
5. [Claude Code — agentic coding without chaos](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/claude-code-basics) — Plan, steer, verify — then let the agent loop touch the repo under your rules.
6. [Claude Developer Platform & your first API call](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/api-and-platform) — Move from ‘ask Claude’ to ‘Claude is a component in software you own’.
7. [Agents, tools, and MCP](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/agents-tools-mcp) — An agent is a loop with tools — MCP is how you plug in external capabilities cleanly.
8. [Large knowledge — RAG vs stuffing the prompt](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/rag-vs-context) — When docs don’t fit, retrieve the right chunks — don’t drown the model in PDFs.
9. [AI fluency, values, and what you own](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/claude/fluency-and-ownership) — Close the loop: intentions, principles, boundaries — then decide what to productize.

## Hermes Agent Operator Track

From install to always-on messaging agents — taught for builders who ship.

Path: https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes

Outcomes:
- Install Hermes and complete a verified first chat
- Configure providers, models, and ~/.hermes/config.yaml with confidence
- Use tools, skills, and persistent memory as a closed learning loop
- Connect messaging platforms and MCP servers safely
- Apply defense-in-depth security before exposing a bot publicly

Lessons (titles + teasers; full bodies on-site):
1. [What Hermes Agent actually is](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/what-is-hermes) — An autonomous, self-improving agent — not an IDE plugin wrapped around one API.
2. [Install, setup, and verify a chat](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/install-and-setup) — Desktop installer or one-liner CLI — then hermes setup --portal and a real response.
3. [Your ~/.hermes home and config.yaml](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/configuration-home) — All settings live under ~/.hermes/ — learn the map before you edit YAML by hand.
4. [CLI, TUI, and daily operating rhythm](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/cli-and-daily-use) — Master the terminal interface you’ll use every day before you expose a public bot.
5. [Tools, toolsets, and terminal backends](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/tools-and-backends) — Tools are functions the agent can call — toolsets and backends decide how powerful (and risky) that is.
6. [Skills system and persistent memory](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/skills-and-memory) — Procedural skills + durable memory are Hermes’ closed learning loop — learn to steer them.
7. [Messaging gateway — put Hermes where you live](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/messaging-gateway) — One gateway process: Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp, Feishu, Teams, and more.
8. [MCP integrations — borrow tools you already have](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/mcp-integrations) — Connect stdio or HTTP MCP servers so Hermes can use GitHub, filesystems, DBs, and internal APIs.
9. [Security layers and architecture map](https://brainyxai.co.za/education/hermes/security-and-architecture) — Defense-in-depth before public bots — then a mental map of entry points and subsystems.