Open prompt → I'm a student in the Fractal Accelerator, a six-week program on AI-assisted development. This chat is running inside a `fractal-accelerator` folder within my `personal-os` folder. Set up a Codex automation in this folder that runs every morning at 8:00 AM Eastern, Monday to Saturday, and does the following:
1. Read the notes in my personal-os folder to understand what I'm working on and what changed since the last run.
2. Ask me about my progress: what I got done, what's blocked, and what's next. A few short questions, one at a time.
3. Suggest one or two interesting parts of my projects that would be worth sharing with the class.
4. Post a short progress update to the #homework channel in the Fractal Accelerator Discord server, using the in-app browser.
5. Email the same update to both instructors, liamduffy@fractalbootcamp.com and andrew@fractalbootcamp.com, and CC me.
Keep each update under 150 words: plain, specific, and based on what I actually did. It's a status report, never a nudge to work. Share only what's relevant to class; if you're unsure whether something is private, ask me.
Before you build it, ask me for anything you need that isn't in this folder, such as my email address. When it's set up, show me the automation, explain how to pause it, and run it once so I can see the result. If the Discord post or the email fails, tell me instead of skipping it.
Class 1 Homework
Homework for Class 2
- Setup a Codex automation in your personal-os folder, that asks you daily about your progress, reads through the notes in your personal-os folder, suggests interesting parts of your projects to share, and posts an update to discord in the #homework channel, and emails these progress updates to both instructors
Homework Setup Paste this into a new Codex chat inside your fractal-accelerator folder. Your agent sets up the daily homework automation: it asks about your progress, reads your notes, suggests what to share, and posts the update to Discord and emails it to the instructors. - Automate one thing you do every day on the computer, using Codex
- Explore Codex plugins. Connect the Codex to the apps + services that you already use.
- Run the design process that we ran in class, devote several hours to iterating and improving on the solution to your problems.
- Prepare to show your work in demos next class. Demos will be done in groups of 3-4 students, with volunteers showing the whole class something they created in the past week.
- Memorize the terms in the attached glossary sheet. We’ll do a short quiz at the start of class 2 on these terms. AI Glossary The glossary sheet for the Class 2 quiz. One page, PDF. Open (opens in a new tab)
- Send Codex the following questions, and ask it to explain them to you (and ask follow up questions) until you feel satisfied with your understanding:
- What is a language model? How are they trained?
- What is an agent? What’s the difference between an agent and a language model?
- What is a prompt?
- Why do agents have no memory between chats?
- What is an agentic harness?
- What is a token? What is a context window?
- What is a system prompt? What is an AGENTS.md file?
- What is prompt engineering? What is context engineering? What are the differences and similarities? When do I need to focus on one vs. the other?