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https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-ai

Watch an AI invent a Bible verse — then build the fix yourself. Five lessons on AI tool calling for Concord builders. No AI experience needed.
https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-ai

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Watch an AI invent a Bible verse — then build the fix yourself. Five lessons on AI tool calling for Concord builders. No AI experience needed.

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![Concord — now teach it to look things up.](docs/banner.svg)



# concord-tutorial-ai



You've seen an AI invent a Bible verse. In five short lessons you'll catch it

doing that with your own code — and then fix it, yourself, so it can't.



By the end, the AI on your computer answers Scripture questions only from a

real Bible it looks up. And you'll open a real production project and

recognize every part of it — because you just built the small version with

your own hands.



## Who this is for



You finished [concord-tutorial-web](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-web)

(or you can fetch from Concord and put the result on a page), and that's

all. **No AI experience needed** — not the apps, not the APIs, none of it.

If you've heard of ChatGPT and you're not sure what's actually inside,

you're exactly who this course is for.



> **Already a developer?** Skim freely — this is a beginner's course,

> deliberately unhurried. If you want the production-grade version of what

> it builds, go straight to

> [concord-mcp](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-mcp).



**Found this because Scripture matters to you?** Maybe you've personally

watched a chatbot quote a verse that doesn't exist — chapter, number, and

all. That's not a reason to walk away from these tools. It's the exact

problem this course teaches you to fix: by the last lesson, every quote

arrives over the wire from a real Bible on your own computer, and you'll

have written the code that makes it so.



## The ladder



This is the third Concord course. Course 1,

[concord-tutorial-web](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-web),

taught you that a server is something you can ask questions. Course 2,

[concord-tutorial-react](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-tutorial-react),

taught you that real code is something you can read — it's recommended,

**not required**; this course is plain HTML and JavaScript throughout.



## Before you start



Two 30-second checks, both straight from your browser's address bar:



- `http://localhost:8000/healthz` — a short line of data means **Concord**

  is on (course 1's ritual, unchanged).

- `http://localhost:11434` — the words "Ollama is running" mean **the AI**

  is on.



If either check fails — or you've never installed Ollama — that's what

[SETUP.md](SETUP.md) is for. One sitting, and every lesson after just

works.



## The five lessons



1. **[Another local server](lessons/01-hello-model/)** — talk to an AI from

   a page you control, then ask it for John 3:16 word for word — and

   discover you can't tell right from blurred without checking.

   ← **start here**

2. **[Catch it making things up](lessons/02-the-fact-check/)** — five

   claimed verses, five live Concord lookups, your own marking tally.

   Ours came out 1 of 5.

3. **[Give it a tool](lessons/03-the-one-rule/)** — the heart of the

   course: a ~40-line loop and a one-sentence rule (without it, our model

   looked things up in 2 of 6 runs; with it, 6 of 6) — and your tally

   becomes 5 of 5 for a reason you can read.

4. **[Let it choose](lessons/04-the-menu/)** — three tools, and the model

   routes by reading descriptions you wrote (ten for ten in our test).

   Then you sabotage one and learn what production already knows.

5. **[It has a name](lessons/05-the-real-thing/)** — a chat that remembers,

   worth showing someone — then concord-mcp, read at its tag, until you

   recognize your own hands in production code.



## What's next



When you've finished all five, the curious can keep going:

[concord-mcp](https://github.com/kbennett2000/concord-mcp) is the

production implementation of exactly what you built — its README shows the

no-code path to running the real thing. Graduates also get

[recipes.md](recipes.md) and [ideas.md](ideas.md) — steal freely.



## License



MIT © 2026 Kris Bennett — see [`LICENSE`](LICENSE). (Parity with Concord.)



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_Never trust a quote without a wire line._