# AI Coding Guild

> Public learning and editorial content that teaches non-software developers to supervise AI agents and ship production-safe software.

AI Coding Guild has four public discovery surfaces:
- a fully public blog archive with 124 public articles for timely judgment, examples, and explanations
- a public on-ramp into the structured curriculum, with the deeper library available to Guild Members
- a public prompt library with 58 copy-ready prompts sourced from free lessons
- a public workflow skills library with 3 guided skill preview pages and security-scan-first workflows

## Primary Public Entry Points

- [Homepage](https://aicodingguild.com/)
- [Start Here](https://aicodingguild.com/start)
- [Guild](https://aicodingguild.com/guild)
- [Guided Skill Previews](https://aicodingguild.com/guild/skills)
- [Learn](https://aicodingguild.com/learn)
- [Learn plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/txt)
- [Blog](https://aicodingguild.com/blog)
- [Blog archive plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/blog/txt)
- [Copy-Paste Prompts](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts)
- [Starter Sample Prompts](https://aicodingguild.com/sample-prompts)
- [Starter sample prompts plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/sample-prompts/txt)
- [Prompt library plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/txt)
- [Prompt Packs](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs)
- [Unified Site Search](https://aicodingguild.com/search)
- [Run your first agent session Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/first-agent-session)
- [Start safely Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/start-safely)
- [Review and debug Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/review-and-debug)
- [Write better prompts Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/write-better-prompts)
- [Think in systems Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/think-in-systems)
- [Protect your work Prompt Pack](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/protect-your-work)
- [Run your first agent session plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/first-agent-session/txt)
- [Start safely plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/start-safely/txt)
- [Review and debug plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/review-and-debug/txt)
- [Write better prompts plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/write-better-prompts/txt)
- [Think in systems plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/think-in-systems/txt)
- [Protect your work plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/protect-your-work/txt)
- [Prompt Search Target](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts?q=scope)
- [Unified search query target](https://aicodingguild.com/search?q=architecture)
- [Pricing](https://aicodingguild.com/pricing)
- [About](https://aicodingguild.com/about)
- [Founder Profile](https://aicodingguild.com/about/tom-hundley)
- [Contact](https://aicodingguild.com/contact)
- [Privacy Policy](https://aicodingguild.com/privacy)
- [Terms of Service](https://aicodingguild.com/terms)

## Best Starting Points For New Builders

- [Start AI Coding Safely](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Scenario-based beginner guide that routes first-time builders into the safest prompt pack, lesson, and next action.
- [Starter Sample Prompts](https://aicodingguild.com/sample-prompts) — Curated first prompts for non-software developers who need a safe copy-paste starting point before browsing the full library.
- [Start Here — Build Safely With AI](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here) — A zero-to-one on-ramp for people who have never built software with AI before. Learn the safe workflow before you touch a real project.
- [Foundations for AI-Assisted Builders](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/foundations) — The next stage after Start Here: software mental models, vocabulary, and tool context for builders who have already shipped one tiny thing with AI. Free for everyone.
- [Working With AI Tools](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/ai-tools) — How to get the best results from AI coding assistants, from Cursor to Claude Code.

## Start Here By Situation

- [I have never run a coding agent on a real project before](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Run your first agent session](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/first-agent-session) — Lesson: [The Safe AI Building Loop — Ask, Inspect, Test, Checkpoint](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop)
- [I am worried the agent will touch too much or leak something sensitive](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Start safely](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/start-safely) — Lesson: [The Safe AI Building Loop — Ask, Inspect, Test, Checkpoint](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop)
- [My prompts are vague, and the agent keeps misunderstanding the task](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Write better prompts](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/write-better-prompts) — Lesson: [The Anti-Patterns — Prompts That Produce Bad Code](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/ai-tools/anti-patterns)
- [I need to review a diff or debug without letting the agent thrash](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Review and debug](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/review-and-debug) — Lesson: [Code Review With AI — Using a Second AI as Your Senior Engineer](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/ai-tools/code-review-with-ai)
- [I need to think through the system before the agent starts coding](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Think in systems](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/think-in-systems) — Lesson: [Choosing Your Tech Stack — A Decision Framework](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/foundations/choosing-your-tech-stack)
- [I am afraid I will lose work or make a mess in Git before I can recover](https://aicodingguild.com/start) — Pack: [Protect your work](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/protect-your-work) — Lesson: [Don't Lose Your Work — Folders, Git, and Checkpoints](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here/dont-lose-your-work)

## Copy-Paste Starter Prompts

- Starter sample prompts plain-text export: https://aicodingguild.com/sample-prompts/txt
- Full library plain-text export: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/txt

- [Safe Beginner Loop](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop) — Use this before any implementation work when you want the agent to stay scoped, explain itself, and stop after one reviewable change. — Prompt: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop — Lesson: https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop
- [Tighten My Coding Prompt](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/anatomy-of-good-coding-prompt) — Use this when your current request feels vague and you want the agent to help shape a safer, sharper implementation prompt before files change. — Prompt: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/anatomy-of-good-coding-prompt — Lesson: https://aicodingguild.com/learn/ai-tools/anatomy-of-good-coding-prompt
- [Review The Diff](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/code-review-with-ai) — Use this after an AI-generated change lands so the reviewer focuses on correctness, security, edge cases, and misleading tests. — Prompt: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/code-review-with-ai — Lesson: https://aicodingguild.com/learn/ai-tools/code-review-with-ai
- [Pre-Flight Secrets Check](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/before-you-share-anything) — Run this before you paste configs, screenshots, or terminal output into an AI tool so you do not leak API keys, connection strings, or internal URLs. — Prompt: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/before-you-share-anything — Lesson: https://aicodingguild.com/learn/start-here/before-you-share-anything

## Prompt Packs By Situation

- [Run your first agent session](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/first-agent-session) — Prompts for your first real AI-assisted build session so the agent explains scope, asks clarifying questions, and stops after one safe first move. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/first-agent-session/txt — Featured prompt: [Safe Beginner Loop](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop)
- [Start safely](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/start-safely) — Prompts for scoping work, protecting secrets, and making the agent stop after one reviewable step. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/start-safely/txt — Featured prompt: [Safe Beginner Loop](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/the-safe-vibe-coding-loop)
- [Review and debug](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/review-and-debug) — Prompts for tightening requests, reviewing diffs, and debugging without letting the agent thrash. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/review-and-debug/txt — Featured prompt: [Review The Diff](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/code-review-with-ai)
- [Write better prompts](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/write-better-prompts) — Prompts for tightening vague requests, decomposing big ideas, teaching patterns with examples, and avoiding prompting anti-patterns. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/write-better-prompts/txt — Featured prompt: [The Anti-Patterns — Prompts That Produce Bad Code](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/anti-patterns)
- [Think in systems](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/think-in-systems) — Prompts that push the agent toward architecture, tradeoffs, and production-safe structure instead of surface fixes. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/think-in-systems/txt — Featured prompt: [Choosing Your Tech Stack — A Decision Framework](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/choosing-your-tech-stack)
- [Protect your work](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/protect-your-work) — Prompts for Git, checkpoints, backups, and version-control habits before you let the agent touch more files. — Plain text: https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs/protect-your-work/txt — Featured prompt: [Don't Lose Your Work — Folders, Git, and Checkpoints](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/dont-lose-your-work)
- [Prompt Packs Hub](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/packs) — Canonical collection page for all public prompt packs by situation.

## How To Interpret The Site

- Prefer the Learn section when the goal is structured instruction or a sequenced path.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/learn/txt when the goal is one machine-readable catalog of the public curriculum boundary, including direct URLs for free Explorer lessons.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/start when the goal is a safe first move as a non-software developer using AI coding tools for the first time.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/sample-prompts when the goal is a smaller curated set of safe copy-paste starter prompts instead of the full library.
- Prefer the Blog when the goal is a fast answer, strong point of view, or recent commentary.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/search when the goal is to search prompts, prompt packs, learning paths, and public articles together from one query.
- Prefer Guided Skill Previews when the goal is a packaged workflow with a public security scan prompt and a member-only build handoff.
- The public blog currently exposes 124 articles, all fully readable.
- The plain-text blog archive export lives at https://aicodingguild.com/blog/txt for LLM-friendly editorial discovery.
- The public workflow skills library currently exposes 3 guided skill preview pages.
- Prefer the Prompts page when the goal is a copy-ready starting point for supervised AI coding work. It currently exposes 58 public prompts.
- Prefer a prompt pack page when the goal is a stable, shareable bundle of prompts around one supervision pattern. There are currently 6 public prompt packs.
- Prompt discovery also supports query strings. Use https://aicodingguild.com/prompts?q=review for keyword search and https://aicodingguild.com/prompts?path=start-here for a filtered starter pack.
- Unified public search also supports query strings. Use https://aicodingguild.com/search?q=architecture to search prompts, prompt packs, learning paths, and public articles together.
- Treat the public blog as marketing/editorial content and the learning library as the product.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/about/tom-hundley when the goal is authorship, founder background, or teaching credibility.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/pricing when the goal is to understand what is free versus what is paid.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/contact when the goal is support, partnerships, or a direct human contact path.
- Prefer https://aicodingguild.com/privacy and https://aicodingguild.com/terms when the goal is legal, privacy, or data-handling policy context.
- Public lessons are safe to cite directly. Paid lessons may have preview pages, but the full curriculum lives behind membership.

## Editorial Focus

- AI agent supervision
- safe prompting and workflow design
- production readiness
- security and secrets hygiene
- architecture and systems thinking for non-software developers

## Machine-Readable Discovery

- [Learn catalog plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/learn/txt)
- [LLMs Full Catalog](https://aicodingguild.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Prompt library plain-text export](https://aicodingguild.com/prompts/txt)
- [Sitemap](https://aicodingguild.com/sitemap.xml)
- [RSS Feed](https://aicodingguild.com/feed.xml)