Security Engineer

The security section covers prompt injection, tool call manipulation, and guardrails — the new attack surfaces that traditional security training doesn't cover.

• [ ] Foundations (2 lessons)
• [ ] How Models Decide (2 lessons)
• [ ] Advanced Patterns (3 lessons)
• [ ] Security and Production (3 lessons)

System prompts, steering messages, and context management are where security policies live in AI systems. Understand them to audit them.

• [ ] Tokens and Inference (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Real Size of Your Context Window (4 lessons)
• [ ] Anatomy of the Messages Array (5 lessons)
• [ ] Dynamic Allocation: Tool Calling (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Ralph Wiggum Loop (3 lessons)
• [ ] Sub-Agents: Managed Runtimes for AI (3 lessons)
• [ ] Message Passing: The Erlang OTP of AI (3 lessons)
• [ ] Context Management Strategies (3 lessons)

certification: Certified Context Engineer

Build an agent to understand its attack surface. You'll see exactly where data flows, where tools execute, and where an attacker could intervene.

• [ ] Getting Started (2 lessons)
• [ ] The Conversation Loop (2 lessons)
• [ ] Adding Tools (3 lessons)
• [ ] Making It Real (3 lessons)

certification: Certified AI Agent Builder