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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