AI Training Center

A one-hour, hands-on AI-agent literacy training for SAP HCM consultants and SAP developers, packaged as a custom agent for GitHub Copilot desktop. It teaches AI concepts using SAP-flavoured examples; it is not a SAP configuration or ABAP course. You install the folder once, then start a chat session and pick the agent — no terminal, no setup.

A facilitator agent — Ada — runs the session: it presents a concept in a couple of sentences, gives you an exercise to run in your own AI tool (GitHub Copilot, SAP Joule, ChatGPT — whatever you have), waits, and debriefs. No backend, no API keys, no setup. Some exercises you run right there with Ada; only a few ask you to open a second AI tool, and Ada tells you when.

What it teaches (≈60 min)

#	Module	Min
1	Cold open + Prompting that works	15
2	Why it sometimes lies (reliability)	10
3	Chatbot → Agent	10
4	Foreseeing consequences	10
5	Branch: HCM track or Developer track	10
6	Monday takeaway	5

Concepts: prompting & context, few-shot examples, hallucination, non-determinism & verification, tools/memory/the agent loop, guardrails & human-in-the-loop, augmentation vs replacement, and the agentic development cycle. Every non-obvious claim is cited from vendor-neutral primary sources (Anthropic, Google, Google DeepMind) in skills/ai-training-center/references/SOURCES.md.

Install in GitHub Copilot desktop

This repo is a GitHub Copilot plugin marketplace, so you install it from inside the app — no cloning, no copying folders.

1. In GitHub Copilot desktop, open plugin / marketplace management and add a marketplace from GitHub, pointing at this repo:

   valuept/ai-training-center
   

2. Install the ai-training-center plugin from that marketplace and make sure it's enabled. The app downloads it and registers the agent for you.
3. Start a new chat and select @ai-trainer from the agent picker.
4. Type start. Ada is fully menu-driven — you reply with a number, no typing needed. She first asks 1) English / 2) Deutsch, then which session type you want:
   • 1 — Guided hour: the SAP-tailored ~60-minute curriculum above (HCM or developer branch).
   • 2 — AI topics at your level: Ada checks your AI knowledge level and teaches AI concepts from fundamentals to advanced — agents first, plus the core vocabulary and hands-on "how does it know that?" trust questions. Options like Skip, Go deeper, and Pause are always offered as numbers. You only type real text when an exercise asks you to write a prompt.

One agent, both languages: @ai-trainer asks the learner which language to use on the very first message, then runs the whole session in that language.

Stay current

The installed plugin is a cached copy, so new versions need a refresh. No script, no git, no admin rights, no PowerShell — just the built-in CLI command, before you start a session:

copilot plugin update ai-training-center

(Or copilot plugin update --all to refresh every installed plugin at once.) Run it any time — it's quick, safe to run repeatedly, and needs nothing beyond Copilot CLI itself.

Languages / Sprachen

Same curriculum, same sources, in English and German (Deutsch). Ada asks at the start and switches the whole session — informal du in German. The cited sources (references/SOURCES.md) stay in their original English; the German module content lives under skills/ai-training-center/references/de/.

Optional live demo (presenter-led)

Module 3 can show real agent anatomy using the agent0 CLI in this repo (plan → execute → policy → memory). Commands are in the Module 3 section of skills/ai-training-center/references/guided-hour.md. Fully skippable — the hands-on exercise teaches the concept without it.

Layout

ai-training-center/
  .github/plugin/
    plugin.json                            # plugin manifest
    marketplace.json                       # makes the repo installable in-app
  agents/
    ai-trainer.md                          # Ada — one agent, asks EN/DE at start
  skills/ai-training-center/
    SKILL.md                               # curriculum spine + rules
    references/
      SOURCES.md                           # cited vendor-neutral sources (shared)
      guided-hour.md                       # all 6 modules + both branches, one file
      topics-ai.md                         # adaptive AI-topics catalog
      copilot-power-tools.md               # optional slash commands / skills / hooks add-on
      de/                                  # German equivalents
        guided-hour.md
        themen-ki.md
        copilot-power-tools.md

Principles

Hands-on over lecture · real tool, no infra · sourced not invented · honest about disruption · timeboxed. The learner's hands stay on the keyboard.