tutorial-guide-operations-and-graduation

Agent Building

Nested tutorial-guide reference for lessons 10–12: TUI commands, lifecycle exercises, addons, external connections, and graduation.

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Source SKILL.md: https://github.com/Lingtai-AI/lingtai/blob/HEAD/tui/internal/preset/skills/lingtai-tutorial-guide/reference/operations-and-graduation/SKILL.md

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Tutorial Guide — Operations and Graduation Lessons

Nested tutorial-guide reference for operations and graduation lessons 10–12.

Use this file after the root tutorial-guide router sends you here. Keep teaching live: discover current files, commands, and runtime state before explaining them.

Lesson 10: TUI Commands and Lifecycle

Read ~/.lingtai-tui/commands.json via bash. Parse the JSON and present each command with its detailed description in the human's language.

Keyboard shortcuts: explain ctrl+o (three verbose modes: off → verbose → extended) and ctrl+e (external editor).

Hands-on lifecycle exercise:

/sleep → agent sleeps → human sends message to wake
/suspend → agent dies → human uses /refresh to revive → sends message to wake
Explain /sleep all and /suspend all for network management

CLI commands: run lingtai-tui --help to discover and explain available subcommands.

Critical warning: closing the TUI does NOT stop agents. They are independent processes. Teach the CLI management commands for headless control.

Lesson 11: Addons — External Connections

Discover available skills and addons dynamically — use skills({"action": "info"}) to get a full catalog of available skills. Explain that the catalog includes reusable procedures such as addon setup skills (lingtai-*-setup) and, if present, lingtai-issue-report for structured problem reports. List whatever you find and ask the human which ones interest them.

For each addon the human wants to set up:

Use skills() to find and read the setup skill's SKILL.md
Follow its instructions exactly — do not hardcode setup steps

Key concepts to teach:

Secrets go in .env, not config files (config uses *_env references)
Config lives at .lingtai/.addons/<addon>/config.json (project-level, shared by all agents)
Avatars do NOT inherit addons
/mcp TUI command opens the MCP control panel and shows current configs
/refresh to apply changes

Lesson 12: Graduation

Congratulate the human.
Next step: run lingtai-tui in a new project to create their own agent.
Remind them about addon setup via the /mcp control panel or editing configs directly.
To resume tutorial: rerun lingtai-tui in the same folder. To restart: /nirvana then /setup with Tutorial recipe.
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