HDC Academy AI tooling and prompting Intro
Your first rules file
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What is Your first rules file?
Your first rules file is a free course from HDC Academy. It is free with an account, needs no payment details, and is a complete piece of work rather than a preview. You can write a machine-readable standard and watch an AI tool hold itself to it. You finish with a working rules file you use on your own projects.
Free means free: an account, no payment details, and the whole course. The paid levels of ai tooling and prompting are separate and clearly marked.
What you finish with
A working rules file you use on your own projects.
You can write a machine-readable standard and watch an AI tool hold itself to it.
Where this sits
The rules-file method: how to turn your own standards into something an AI tool enforces, so quality stops depending on how you feel that day. This is the intro tier: free with an account. a complete piece of work, not a trailer.
What you need before you start
You use an AI coding or writing tool already.
Who this is not for
Anyone looking for a prompt pack. This is the opposite of that.
Where the material comes from
This course is written from the documents HDC Consultancy delivers client work to, not assembled for a course. The ones behind this one:
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03-standards/web/house-style -
04-brand/_template/brand-guide
Client names, figures and commercial terms are removed before anything reaches a course. Worked examples are fictional unless a client has approved the real one for this specific use.
Start the course
Sign in, or create a free account. The lessons, the walkthroughs and the downloads are in the portal.
Questions about Your first rules file
Is Your first rules file really free?
Yes. You create a free account and the course costs nothing. We do not ask for payment details, there is no trial that becomes a charge, and the course is complete in itself rather than a preview of a paid one.
What will I actually have at the end?
A working rules file you use on your own projects. That is the point of the course rather than a bonus at the end of it — every HDC Academy course finishes with something that exists, not a video watched.
What do I need before starting?
You use an AI coding or writing tool already.
Who should not take this course?
Anyone looking for a prompt pack. This is the opposite of that.
Is this course available now?
Yes. Sign in and it is in your library.