Assistants

Blueprint

The plan you write BEFORE building an assistant, covering every layer it will run on. 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. Students build theirs layer by layer, deciding exactly how their assistant should behave.

Back to all 54 AI terms for students.

Knowing the word is the start

Blueprint is one of 54 terms students meet across 16 video lessons that teach them to direct AI rather than just use it.