This repository contains hands-on resources, code templates, and project guides for the WCC AI Learning Series.
Working title: Stop Prompting, Start Delegating
Women Coding Community presents the AI Learning Series: one hands-on session a month, no heavy slides, real tools and real code you can use at work.
Over six months we build an agent's harness from the ground up, the instructions, skills, tools and guardrails that turn a capable model into an agent that does your work, then we close the loop so your agents run while you sleep.
Format: 6 sessions, one per month Cadence: 3rd Tuesday of every month Delivery: Hands-on, live-build, minimal slides Facilitators: Sonika Janagill (Series Lead, Google track), with Rajani Rao (Founder/Director WCC, Microsoft track) following up each session with a companion piece mapping the same patterns to Agent Framework and Foundry
Live builds run on: Antigravity (IDE + CLI), Claude Code, Google ADK
| # | Session | Level |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Build Your Own Agent Skill | Entry-level friendly |
| 2 | Tools & Boundaries: MCP, Plugins, Permissions, Hooks | All levels |
| 3 | Small Models in Practice | All levels |
| 4 | Sub-Agents & Specialisation | Intermediate |
| 5 | AI in the SDLC & CI/CD | Intermediate |
| 6 | Loop Engineering + Demo Day | Advanced, community showcase |
Dates are confirmed session by session in #ai-learning-series and on Meetup.
Each session has its own quick setup guide, posted the week before in Slack, so live time stays for building. General prerequisites:
- Some Python
- A Google Cloud account (free tier is fine) or an LLM API key
- Antigravity (IDE + CLI) and Claude Code installed
- Google ADK installed locally
See getting-started/ for the detailed guides.
- Welcome & recap (5 min)
- Concept framing (10 min)
- Live build (30 min), real code, real tools, debug in the open
- Participant activity / steal-this pattern (10 min)
- Q&A + next-session teaser (5 min)
ai-learning-series/
├── README.md # This file
├── STRUCTURE.md # Detailed structure notes
├── getting-started/ # Setup guides
├── sessions/
│ ├── session-01-agent-skill/
│ │ ├── live-demo/ # Code from the live session
│ │ ├── starter-template/ # Template for participants
│ │ └── participants/ # Participant submissions
│ ├── session-02-tools-boundaries/
│ ├── session-03-small-models/
│ ├── session-04-sub-agents/
│ ├── session-05-sdlc-cicd/
│ └── session-06-loop-engineering/
├── resources/ # Cross-session reference material
├── utilities/ # Shared scripts/helpers
└── badges/ # Participation badge criteria
- Review the session materials in
/sessions/session-0X-.../ - Check
/getting-started/for setup guides - Use
/resources/for reference materials
- Follow the setup guide in
/getting-started/ - Clone this repository
- Navigate to your session folder
- Use the starter template to begin coding
- Submit your work to
/sessions/[session]/participants/[your-username]/
- Sonika Janagill - Series Lead, Google track
- Rajani Rao - Founder/Director WCC, Microsoft track (companion piece)
This project is open source and available under the MIT License.
We welcome contributions! Please:
- Fork this repository
- Create a feature branch
- Submit a pull request with your improvements
📚 2025 Series (Archived), click to expand
Hands-on resources, code templates, and project guides for the original 12-week AI learning program.
Format: 12 sessions total (6 Foundational + 6 Advanced) Duration: 60 minutes each Schedule: Every other Wednesday, starting November 5th, 2025 Target Audience: Coders with no/basic AI knowledge Delivery: Hands-on, project-based learning Certification: GitHub-tracked participation badges
- Foundational Track: Nov 5 - Dec 10 (6 weeks)
- Break: Last week of January (feedback & planning)
- Advanced Track: Jan 14 - Feb 18 (planned, never delivered)
Primary Stack: Python 3.11+, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Vertex AI / Gemini API, Jupyter Notebooks, VS Code, Google Colab
Alternative Options: AWS (Bedrock, SageMaker), Azure (OpenAI Service), OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude
- Sonika - Foundational Track Lead
- Sonali - Advanced Track Lead
See the original session folders under /sessions/ (session-01-ai-chatbots through session-06-deploy-agent) for full learning objectives, use cases, and participant submissions from the 2025 run. The series restarts in 2026 as The Harness Series above, rather than picking up the planned Advanced Track.
Last Updated: November 2025