The Academy
Learn the system, one lesson at a time.
Three short tracks that take you from connecting your first tools to directing @yagni like a colleague. Read them in order, or jump to the surface in front of you.
The YAGNI Academy is the guided way to learn the system: short lessons, grouped into three tracks, that take you from connecting your first tools to directing the agent. Each lesson covers one surface or one habit, in the order operators actually meet them, with videos added as they are recorded.
Course I
Start here
What YAGNI is, how the first Brief lands, and how to read the Front. Orientation for the first week.
What is YAGNI and how does it run a business?
An orientation to YAGNI: one agent that reads the tools you already run on, handles the routine, and shows you the few calls that are yours.
Read the lesson Lesson 2How do you get your first Brief?
From an empty workspace to your first Brief: connect the tools you already run on, let @yagni read them, and meet the Front.
Read the lesson Lesson 3How do you read the Front?
The Front is the always-current page of where the business stands. How it differs from a Brief, what lands on it, and how to read it well.
Read the lessonCourse II
Running your day
The Feed, the Inbox, the Calendar, and Work: the surfaces you clear and the receipts that keep them honest.
How does the Feed work?
The Feed is YAGNI's doing surface: one item, one chat, rendering the real artifact. How to clear it, and what your edits teach the agent.
Read the lesson Lesson 2What do amber and teal mean in YAGNI's email triage?
YAGNI's email lane is triage with honest receipts: amber means it needs you, teal means it is handled. No alarm-red, no manufactured urgency.
Read the lesson Lesson 3How does YAGNI prepare your Calendar and track Work?
The Calendar is the agenda @yagni reads and prepares against. Work is the cross-Team surface for work-items. How the two keep your day ready.
Read the lessonCourse III
Directing @yagni
Teams, Responsibilities, and the Playbook: how the agent learns your judgment, and how to ask it for more.
What is a Team and what are its Responsibilities?
A Team is a part of the business @yagni watches and runs, defined by its Responsibilities. What it watches, weighs, and brings to you.
Read the lesson Lesson 2How does a Team's Playbook learn your rules?
The Playbook is the shared set of rules a Team has learned for how the work gets done. Where rules come from, who owns them, and how autonomy grows.
Read the lesson Lesson 3How do you ask @yagni for help?
Use the pinned @yagni composer on Front or the contextual rail on most other surfaces. What grounds its answers and what to ask for.
Read the lesson Lesson 4Which tools does YAGNI connect to, and what does it do with them?
YAGNI's native connectors: Google, Slack, Linear, GitHub, HubSpot, Stripe, Notion. What read access feeds, and how approved work ships back.
Read the lessonThe best classroom is your own workspace.
Connect the tools you already run on and read your first Brief today. The lessons will still be here when you have questions.
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