Skills Cookbook
Lab guide for adopting agentic work and coding assistants.
Tutorials
Setup
Get started with AI coding tools — install OpenCode, connect to OpenRouter, and run your first Kimi K2.5 prompt.
Penguins Analysis
Data analysis with AI assistants — explore a real dataset, write code with suggestions, and produce publication-ready plots.
Journal Club Slides
Create presentations from papers — feed a PDF to an agent and receive a structured Reveal.js slide deck ready to present.
Single Cell Portal
Build an interactive scRNA-seq viewer — scaffold a Shiny/web app that lets users explore dimensionality-reduction plots.
Context Management
Understand context windows and costs — learn how context rot develops and how to use /compact to keep runs cheap and accurate.
APM
Dependency manager for AI context — use the Agent Package Manager to declare, version, and inject context modules automatically.
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