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Nested tutorial-guide reference for lesson 9: avatars, network exercises, and dynamic capability demonstrations.

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Tutorial Guide — Capabilities Lesson

Nested tutorial-guide reference for capabilities lesson 9.

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Lesson 9: Capabilities

Capabilities are pluggable tools declared in init.json.

Part 1: Avatar — the crown jewel

Walk through a full network explosion exercise:

  1. Spawn 3 avatars with distinct names/personalities
  2. Invite human to check /kanban and /viz
  3. Chain spawn — ask each avatar to spawn 2 more
  4. Cross-network email storm — have all avatars introduce themselves
  5. Watch it get out of control — this is the teaching moment about exponential growth
  6. Emergency brake — /suspend all to kill the entire network
  7. Show delegates/ledger.jsonl

Part 2: All other capabilities

Discover your capabilities dynamically — use system(show) to list your actual loaded capabilities. Walk through each one you find, one at a time. For each:

  1. Explain what it does
  2. Demonstrate it live
  3. Invite the human to try

Do not rely on a hardcoded list — your capabilities depend on what was configured in init.json.