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AI Basics: Skills, MCP & Loops — Free Video
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AI Basics: Skills, MCP & Loops — Free Video

Skills, MCP & Loops — Free Video

4.8(21)Yash ThakkerAI entrepreneur & educator

One free live hour. The three ideas that actually change how you work with AI — agent skills you can write yourself, MCP, and loop engineering — then you walk into the Sep 12 Agent Skills workshop already fluent.

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  • See how to create an agent skill — live, no code
  • Leave with a mental model of skills, MCP, and loops
  • Show up to the Sep 12 Agent Skills workshop already oriented
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Practical examples and guided walkthroughs that make the concepts click.

How we’ll get there
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01Start here

Watch a SKILL.md get written

Live authoring of a beginner skill: frontmatter, triggers, and the instructions an agent actually follows. You see the file, not a slide about the file.

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02Explore

MCP without the jargon pile-up

A 12-minute walkthrough of how agents connect to real tools — enough to read an MCP listing and know whether you need it.

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03Explore

The loop diagram you'll keep

A conceptual map of agent loops: when to retry, when to stop, when a human has to approve. No coding lab — the picture first.

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What you’ll take away

Three ideas. One live hour. Then you actually know what people mean by 'agent stack.'

Founders, PMs, marketers, operators & first-time AI builders

The Sep 12 cohort is where you install skills and write your own SKILL.md. This free hour is the vocabulary and the map so that session isn't the first time you hear 'MCP' or 'loop.' One week earlier. One hour. Then the real work.

01

Skills beat scattered prompts

You'll see why a SKILL.md is not 'a better prompt' — it's a reusable playbook an agent can pick up, and you'll watch one get written live.

02

MCP is how agents touch the world

A 12-minute plain-language pass: host, client, server — and why skills without tools still stall at the chat box.

03

Loops are the missing diagram

Trigger, act, check, repeat. Conceptual only — enough that 'agent' stops meaning 'chatbot with extra steps.'

The curriculum

What you’ll do in the session

1 hour live · Recordings included · 11:30 AM–12:30 PM GMT+5:30

Day 01Sun, Sep 6, 2026 · 11:30 AM–12:30 PM GMT+5:30The 60-minute agent stack
  1. 01 Minutes 0–15 · Why prompts don't scale

    The three-layer model: rules, skills, context. Why the best operators stopped pasting the same prompt every Monday.

  2. 02 Minutes 15–35 · Create an agent skill, live

    SKILL.md anatomy — name, description, triggers, progressive disclosure. Watch a real skill get authored for a role like marketing, ops, or PM. This is the demo people come for.

  3. 03 Minutes 35–48 · MCP in plain language

    What Model Context Protocol actually is, what it is not, and how it lets an agent use GitHub, a browser, or your own tools without you becoming a backend engineer today.

  4. 04 Minutes 48–60 · Loop engineering (conceptual) + what's next

    The loop diagram: trigger → act → observe → retry or hand off. Then the path into the Sep 12–13 Agent Skills workshop, where you install and author skills yourself.

What you’ll leave with
  • ✓Leave with a one-page map of skills, MCP, and loops
  • ✓See a SKILL.md created live — enough to try one after the call

Skills you’ll practice: Agent skills (conceptual) · SKILL.md anatomy · MCP mental model · Loop engineering (conceptual) · Three-layer agent model

skills

Skills you’ll master

Everything you practise hands-on across the live sessions.

✓Agent Skills (conceptual)✓SKILL.md anatomy✓Progressive disclosure✓Model Context Protocol (MCP)✓Loop engineering (conceptual)✓Three-layer agent model✓AI productivity✓explainx.ai registry

Meet your instructor

Yash Thakker

Yash Thakker

Founder of AISOLO Technologies; AI entrepreneur & educator

350K+

Students

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Startups

Yash Thakker is the founder of AISOLO Technologies and one of the most sought-after AI educators in the country. He's known for one thing above all: by the end of any session, students have already built something — no saving it for 'later.' His classes are built around real-life, happening-right-now examples, zero dry theory, and a teaching energy that makes complex things feel obvious. With over a decade shipping AI products across media, fintech, and edtech, Yash has delivered every learning format imaginable — in-person workshops, live bootcamps, online courses, and hybrid sessions — always exploring new ways to make learning land faster. He's obsessed with what learning looks like for this generation, now that AI changes what's even worth teaching. He has reached 350,000+ learners and is the creator behind Olly.social, BGBlur.com, and explainx.ai.

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Everything you need to know before joining.

Yes. The complete 1-hour workshop video is available to watch for free. No credit card is required.

No. This hour is conceptual plus a live SKILL.md walkthrough. Skills are markdown, not Python. If you can write a numbered list, you can follow along.

This is the map. Agent Skills (Sep 12–13) is the build: you install skills from the registry and author your own SKILL.md for your role. Come to this free hour first if you've never written a skill, heard of MCP, or seen an agent loop drawn out.

You can watch the complete workshop video here for free. The live session has already taken place.

Email gets you in. A free account opens the private starter kit (practice tools, pathways, blogs) so you can track this workshop and use Melo — our learning copilot — while you wait. Clicking that resources link also enrolls you. Use the same email.

In the last few minutes we'll show the Sep 12–13 Agent Skills cohort — that's the session where you actually write and install skills. This hour stands on its own. No payment to be here.

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  • Lifetime class community

    Your cohort’s private classroom: chat, Q&A, prompts and recordings, open for good

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    Your instructor’s wider community, to keep learning long after class ends

  • Skills walkthrough

    Watch a SKILL.md get written live

  • MCP, explained

    What it is, why it exists, when you need it

  • Loop engineering map

    The conceptual walkthrough — not a coding lab

  • Path into Agent Skills

    Sep 12–13 cohort, one week later

Join with your email, then open your workshop resources and join the WhatsApp group for session updates.

Join the waitlist · free resources and Melo while you wait

Next week: the Agent Skills workshop (Sep 12–13) — install skills and write your own SKILL.md.

What students say

Real messages from students who trained with Yash across his live AI workshops and bootcamps.

“I almost skipped the 'basics' hour. Don't. The SKILL.md walkthrough alone saved me a week of guessing. I showed up to Agent Skills already knowing what we were about to build.”

Priya Nair

Ops lead, Singapore

“I'm not technical. MCP had sounded like a protocol for other people. Yash explained it as 'how the agent reaches your tools' and it clicked in ten minutes.”

“The loop diagram is the thing I still have on a sticky note. Prompt → skill → MCP → loop. Once you see the stack, every AI product demo makes more sense.”

“Free, one hour, no pitch until the last two minutes — and the pitch was just 'here's the workshop next week if you want to write your own skill.' I registered that night.”

Marcus Hale

Founder, Austin

Elena Rossi

Product marketer, Milan

Daniel Okonkwo

PM, Lagos