TPEE Learning Center — all 83 free lessons

The complete TPEE prompt engineering course, published free on the web. Each lesson is the three-paragraph summary of what ships in the app, with its quiz questions.

By Jacques Botte, founder of Toptronic®. Last updated 12 September 2026.

Advanced

71. Mixture of Agents

Learn how Mixture of Agents uses multiple LLM agents in layers to improve answer quality.

Beginner

1. AI Fundamentals

Understand what an LLM is and why clear prompts matter.

2. Prompt Anatomy

Use the 12 TPEE sections deliberately.

59. Your First Prompt - A Step-by-Step Example

Walk through creating your first complete prompt from start to finish.

60. Common Beginner Mistakes and How to Fix Them

Recognize and avoid the most common errors new users make.

61. Building a Prompt: Real Workflow Example

See a complete real-world example from initial need to final prompt.

62. Using Templates to Get Started Fast

Leverage built-in templates instead of starting from scratch.

63. Organizing and Saving Your Work

Learn to save, name, and find your prompts effectively.

64. Exporting and Using Your Prompts

Understand all the ways to get your prompt out of TPEE and into AI tools.

65. Team Collaboration for New Users

Understand how to work with others using TPEE's team features.

68. Getting Started - Best Practices Checklist

A concise checklist to follow for every prompt as a new user.

74. Ollama

Run large language models locally on your own machine with Ollama.

80. Obsidian

Understand Obsidian as a free, private, local-first Markdown note-taking and knowledge-base app, and how it pairs with Graphify to browse the TPEE project graph.

81. ASCII

Read the ASCII table and understand why 7-bit ASCII is the foundation of digital text.

Beginner–Intermediate

72. Deep with Tokens

Master what tokens are, how tokenizers work, and why token limits affect cost and quality.

Intermediate

3. Context Windows and Tokens

Budget prompt size, attachments, and long conversations.

4. Models, Cost, and Quality

Choose models based on risk, context, speed, and price.

5. Ollama Local AI

Know what Ollama is and how TPEE should describe it safely.

6. LM Studio Local AI

Understand LM Studio as a separate local model application.

66. Iterative Prompt Improvement

Learn the skill of refining prompts based on AI responses.

67. Troubleshooting AI Responses

Diagnose common problems with AI outputs and fix them systematically.

70. Harness for LLM

Understand how LLM evaluation harnesses let you benchmark, compare, and validate large language models using reproducible tests.

73. Hermes Agent

Understand Hermes Agent as a self-improving, terminal-native autonomous AI agent and how to work with it effectively.

75. Open Router

Use OpenRouter as a unified gateway to many LLM providers and models.

76. Open Code, Zen and Go

Explore Open Code as an AI coding platform and how 'Zen' simplicity plus the Go language fit into modern AI-assisted development.

77. LM Studio

Run, chat with, and serve large language models locally and offline using LM Studio.

78. OmniRoute

Understand OmniRoute as a free, open-source AI gateway that gives one local endpoint access to hundreds of LLM providers with automatic fallback.

79. Graphify

Understand how Graphify turns a codebase into a queryable knowledge graph so AI coding assistants can answer architecture questions cheaply and accurately.

82. Unicode

Understand Unicode code points and UTF-8 so multi-language and emoji text is handled correctly.

83. Unsloth

Understand how Unsloth makes running and fine-tuning large language models fast, memory-efficient, and local-first.

Professional

7. IDEs and Coding Agents

Use Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, Codex CLI, and other tools with the right prompt shape.

8. RAG, Hallucination, and Verification

Reduce unsupported answers and verify important work.

9. Privacy, IP, and External Services

Protect confidential work and understand TPEE's offline rule.

10. Agent Teams and Orchestration

Understand when multiple AI roles help and when they add risk.

11. Professional AI Workflows

Turn AI into a repeatable work system.

13. Advanced Prompt Patterns

Use role, task, constraints, examples, rubrics, and iteration patterns like a specialist.

14. Prompt Debugging

Diagnose why an AI answer was weak and improve the prompt deliberately.

15. Evaluation and Rubrics

Judge AI output with measurable criteria instead of personal feeling.

16. AI Safety and Human Review

Know when a human must decide and when AI output is only advice.

17. RAG Foundations

Understand retrieval augmented generation and why grounding documents matter.

18. Embeddings and Vector Search

Understand how semantic search finds related meaning rather than exact words.

19. Data Preparation for AI

Prepare documents, logs, code snippets, and examples so AI can use them correctly.

20. Local AI Hardware

Understand CPU, GPU, NPU, RAM, VRAM, and storage bottlenecks.

21. Quantisation and Model Size

Choose between FP16, INT8, INT4, quality, speed, and memory use.

22. Cloud vs Local Decision Making

Choose cloud, local, or hybrid AI based on privacy, cost, speed, and quality.

23. AI Coding Workflows

Use AI for coding without breaking working software.

24. Rust and Systems Prompting

Prompt effectively for Rust, C, embedded systems, and hardware/software work.

25. Testing and Quality Gates

Make AI-generated work prove itself.

26. Security Prompting

Use AI to find risks without exposing secrets or creating unsafe instructions.

27. Privacy, Copyright, and IP

Protect business information and respect legal boundaries.

28. Business AI Workflows

Use AI for proposals, support, operations, sales, and management.

29. AI for Trades and Field Work

Apply AI safely in electrical, wholesaler, tradesman, and field-service contexts.

31. AI Communication and Tone

Control style for customers, engineers, students, managers, and executives.

32. Cost Control and Token Budgeting

Avoid surprise costs and keep workflows efficient.

33. Model Selection Strategy

Select a model based on task type, risk, speed, privacy, and available context.

34. Agent Team Design

Design useful AI teams instead of noisy role lists.

35. OpenClaw and Personal Agent Gateways

Understand OpenClaw-style products and where they fit in the AI workflow.

36. Paperclip and Agent-Company Orchestration

Understand Paperclip-style control planes for many AI agents.

37. Building a Personal AI Playbook

Turn repeated AI success into a personal or company standard.

39. Comparing Cloud Frontier Models

Understand when to choose GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, DeepSeek V4, or Grok 4.3.

40. Small vs Large Models

Choose the right model size based on task complexity, cost, and hardware constraints.

41. Model Selection for Coding

Select the optimal model for programming tasks based on complexity and language.

42. Model Selection for Creative Work

Choose models that excel at writing, marketing, documentation, and creative tasks.

43. Model Selection for Analysis

Pick models that excel at research, data analysis, and structured reasoning.

44. Multimodal and Vision Models

Understand when and why to use vision-capable AI models.

45. Reasoning Models vs Standard

Understand reasoning models like o3-mini and DeepSeek-R1 and when to use them.

46. Local Model Strategy

Choose the right local models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Mistral) for your hardware and needs.

47. Cost-Optimized Workflows

Build efficient AI workflows that minimize cost while maintaining quality.

49. Moonshot Kimi K2 - China's Frontier Model

Understand Moonshot Kimi's capabilities and when to select this Chinese frontier model.

50. DeepSeek V4 - Open Source Excellence from China

Understand DeepSeek's open-weight models and their cost/performance advantages.

51. Alibaba Qwen 3.6 - The Multilingual Powerhouse

Understand Qwen's multilingual strengths and deployment options.

52. Southeast Asian AI Ecosystem

Understand regional AI models from Singapore and Southeast Asia.

53. Asian vs Western Model Philosophies

Understand different approaches to AI development across regions.

54. When to Choose Asian Models

Learn specific scenarios where Asian models provide advantages.

55. Accessing Asian Models Internationally

Understand regional considerations and access methods for Asian AI models.

56. Cost Advantage of Asian Models

Understand the price/performance benefits of Asian AI models.

57. Asian Models for Coding Excellence

Understand specialized coding models from Asian developers.

58. Future of Asian AI Development

Understand emerging trends and future directions in Asian AI.

69. Prompt Enhancing Techniques

Improve any prompt by first conversing with the AI ABOUT the prompt - the method behind TPEE's Prompt Enhancing Workflow.

Review

12. Capstone: From Beginner to Professional

Combine all lessons into a safe professional checklist.

38. Expert Capstone and Certification Review

Review the full professional AI skill set and prepare for future course expansion.

48. Model Selection Capstone

Master the complete model selection decision framework.

Student

30. AI for Students

Learn without cheating and use AI as a tutor.

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