Unit 0. Welcome to the course
Week 2 — Retrieval, graphs, evaluation, skills
Mon 21 Sep to Fri 25 Sep, two hours a day.
Goal: Grounding and evidence. You build a retrieval baseline, measure it, replace the loop with a typed graph, trace and evaluate the agent, and write the first architecture decision record. The capstone opens.
| Session | Day | Topic | Assessment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Mon 21 Sep | A retrieval baseline | scored |
| 7 | Tue 22 Sep | Retrieval and grounding metrics | scored |
| 8 | Wed 23 Sep | Loops and graphs | scored |
| 9 | Thu 24 Sep | Trace and evaluate an agent | scored |
| 10 | Fri 25 Sep | Skills and an architecture decision record | handed in |
The capstone opens this week and is built between sessions.
Every session directory holds an introduction.mdx, its concept pages, an
exercise notebook.ipynb. No solutions are published: every exercise is
scored by its check, and the check's message says what is wrong. Run the
checks with uv run bootcamp check chNN and hand in with uv run bootcamp submit chNN --github <you>.