The Applied AI foundation volume
A better way to think, create, and work with AI
AI can draft, analyze, design, research, code, and act. This companion site helps turn that capability into better work through framing, feedback, verification, memory, and human judgment.
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Choose your path
Follow the chapters, start with the seven design commitments, or jump directly into practical prompts, examples, and current vendor comparisons.
Start here
Learn the framework
Read with the book
Follow the chapter resource pages for cited works, primary-source links, companion activities, and worked examples.
Open Chapter Resources →Seven Design Commitments
Explore recurring mechanisms across coding-agent practice, reasoning-model training, autonomous agency, and knowledge work, with the failure pressure each commitment addresses.
Open the Mapping →Translate market terms
Map agent loops, worktrees, sub-agents, check commands, kill switches, and maturity tiers onto the seven commitments.
Open Market Vocabulary →Practice
Put it to work
Apply the framework
Use the prompts library to turn the seven design commitments into operational practices for each architectural layer.
Open Prompts Library →Worked Examples
Inspect full dialog transcripts, multi-step agent traces, and complete diagnostic walks across the architecture.
Open the Examples →Materiality Dial
Calibrate autonomy and review across software, healthcare, legal, policy, education, and other operational contexts.
Open the Patterns →Responsible AI
Connect cross-disciplinary sources and operator obligations directly to the architectural layers.
Open the Reading →Living resources
Stay current
Vendor Capability Matrices
Compare current reasoning-model and agent capabilities, caveats, confirmation gates, monitor models, and sandboxing.
Open the Matrices →MCP Server Catalog
Compare MCP vendor adopters, community projects, capability notes, and links to upstream documentation.
Open the Catalog →Fleet, Memory, Culture
Explore the Alex ACT fleet layer, Mall catalog, and the Core-led plugin constellation that implements it.
Open the Reference →Improve the record
Submit corrections to the book or companion pages and review accepted updates in the errata log.
Open Errata Process →The field around the framework
A living map of loop engineering
Gold terms name the book's design language. Gray terms track the changing industry around it.
