Learn by doing
No lesson is only text. Reading is the scaffolding around what you try, never the substance.
A free interactive story that teaches you to use AI
You are Victor Frankenstein's assistant.
He has gone to bed. The thing on the table has just opened its eyes, and it is looking at you. What you type to it decides what it becomes.
The idea
The AI skill is the verb.
Each module is an interactive story adapted from a classic novel, and the way you learn to use AI is by using AI to survive the story. The skill is not a topic laid over the story. It is how you move through it.
The model gets it wrong, on purpose
You watch it fail in exactly the way the lesson is about, and then you get the tools to fix it.
Your craft is the choice
How well you ask changes what happens next. A weak prompt never locks you out. It changes the story, and you always finish.
Nothing to pay, nothing to connect
Everything runs on a built-in simulated engine. No network, no API key, and no AI bill, ever.
Module 00 · First Contact
Four skills in fifty minutes.
after Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1818
~50 min · free · six chapters · four endings · ends unresolved
It has no words.
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Ch 0
It opens its eyes. ARIA introduces herself and is immediately, subtly wrong.
Orientation -
Ch 1
It has no words. You watch it assemble language one piece at a time.
What a model actually is -
Ch 2
First words. Vague instruction goes badly. You rewrite.
Prompt craft -
Ch 3
Victor's notebook, open on the bench. You ask it what it sees.
Vision and documents -
Ch 4
It tells you something about the village that is not true.
Catching hallucinations -
Ch 5
The gate. Lights on the road. One prompt. Then —
Everything at once
Eight Concept Cards
A reference deck you keep, searchable, and exportable to Markdown or Anki for after the story.
Live Mode, only if you want it
Add your own API key for real model calls. It is off until you turn it on, and every exercise works without it.
Keyboard all the way
Every screen and every exercise can be reached without a mouse.
The creature is loose.
Everything you taught it, it took with it.
The Art of Asking — Module 01 — is the hunt.
Coming soon
Coming soon
More stories, each a one-time purchase.
First Contact is fifty minutes and four exercises. Each of these is seven or eight hours, and yours to keep.
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01
The Art of Asking
with Sherlock Bones
Prompt craft — continues the story
7 hours -
02
Beyond Text
after Dracula, 1897
Images, documents, the live web, audio
8 hours -
03
The Long Voyage
after The Odyssey
Context engineering, memory, retrieval
8 hours -
04
Eighty Days
after Around the World in Eighty Days, 1873
Tools and agents
8 hours -
05
The Grand Academy
after Gulliver's Travels, 1726
Workflows, automation, connectors
7 hours -
06
The Chart and the Crew
after Treasure Island, 1883
AI for coding
8 hours
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Free, and yours to keep.
The app and First Contact cost nothing. No account, no API key, no email wall.
The first release is on its way. Installers for Windows, macOS and Linux will be here when it is ready.
Learning Lab is a desktop app. Open this page on a Windows, Mac or Linux computer to download it.
Windows
64-bit installer
Coming soon
macOS
Apple silicon, M1 and later
Coming soon
macOS
Intel
Coming soon
Linux
64-bit AppImage
Coming soon
Who made this
Built by SkyRock Agency.
We do this for businesses: practical AI and custom software, without the hype. We build it. We train your team. We keep it running.