A menu, not a checklist
The kinds of agents you might build.
You're not building one agent — over time you build a coordinated set that works like a classroom operating system. This is the menu: twenty-two agents in seven families. Tap any one for a ready-made build scaffold to take into the builder. Start with one.
Every agent has the same five parts — this is what keeps the system teachable, safe and consistent:
JOB what it does · INPUT what it consumes · RULES must & never · OUTPUT what you receive · LAYER where it sits on the AI Periodic Table.
Within the rules, always: a child never types into an agent — you operate it and read every output first; no names or personal data ever go in. You can trial agents with your class as part of the project; keeping any beyond it is your school's decision.
How you get to one
The pipeline
Understandthe AI Periodic Table
Diagnosea real classroom need
Designpick an agent type
Builduse the scaffold + builder
Teachtrial it in the lab
The library
Seven families
Putting them together
A classroom stack
You don't pick random tools. You compose a few agents into one teacher-conducted system for a lesson — you run them in sequence and read every output. An example:
Lesson Builder plans it
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Hook Generator opens it
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Grow Tower Data Interpreter grounds it in real data
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Feedback Writer closes the loop
Together — conducted by you — that's one teaching system. Build the four ready-made agents first to see the shape: the ready-made set →