Blueprint
The plan you write BEFORE building an assistant, covering all 5 layers it'll run on — Role, Knowledge, Rules, Tone, Safety Limits. Plan first, then climb.
In practice
Purpose, personality, and guardrail, decided on paper first.
Where students meet it
Blueprint is taught in Lesson 8, Design Your AI: What Should It Do?, part of the Assistants unit of the AI Explorers course for kids. Nico is the guide for that lesson, and it is one of 5 terms in the unit.
Often mixed up with
- System Prompt
The standing instructions an assistant reads before every chat. It has five layers: Role, Knowledge, Rules, Tone, and Safety Limits.
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KNOWING THE WORD IS THE START
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