Skills Cookbook

Lab guide for adopting agentic work and coding assistants.

Tutorials

1. Setup — Get started with OpenCode, OpenRouter, and Kimi K2.5
2. Penguins Dataset Analysis — Data analysis example with AI
3. Journal Club Slides — Create presentations from papers
4. Data Portal for Single Cell Sequencing — Interactive viewer for scRNA-seq data
5. Managing Context: Reducing Hallucinations and Run Costs — Understand context windows, context rot, and how to use /compact
6. GSD and the Ralph Loop — Atomic task workflows and autonomous agentic loops
7. Agent Package Manager (APM) — Dependency manager for AI agent context

Prerequisites

• GitHub Education — Free Copilot Access — Apply for GitHub Education benefits and activate Copilot Pro with Claude

Extra Resources

• Anthropic’s Guide to Building Effective Agents
• claude-mem: Memory System
• Claude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant (DeepLearning.AI)

Motivation

“Nothing we do as we know it will be the same in three months”

“Code is over”

“We should be burning through a data centre’s worth of credits” — Nathan