aDNA Teaching Kit

A ready-to-import syllabus for teaching agentic literacy. Nine tutorials, three weeks, one coherent learning arc — from navigating your first vault to federating work across instances. The structure is the lesson: students learn aDNA by building an aDNA vault.

Who this is for

University instructors, bootcamp leads, and workshop facilitators teaching agentic literacy as a first-class skill — not as flat prompting, but as structural knowledge design that AI agents and humans can both navigate.

Week 1 — Foundations

Students explore a live vault, learn to sort content into the triad, and write their first governance file. By end of week they have a forked project vault with a working CLAUDE.md.

Week 2 — Building Blocks

Students add their own knowledge to the vault — context files, ontology extensions, and their first mission. The move from consumers of a vault to producers of one.

Week 3 — Systems

Students compose their work into larger wholes: executable lattices, phased campaigns, and federated exchange with peer vaults. The course ends with their work shareable beyond the classroom.

Assessment

• Navigability grade — can a classmate from a different discipline navigate your vault and understand your domain? This is the dual-audience principle as grading rubric.
• AGENTS.md routing — do the routing files correctly guide a fresh agent to the right working files for a given task?
• Mission decomposition — does each objective name a verifiable deliverable? Can a peer claim and complete one without additional context?

Facilitation notes

• Start every class in the vault, not in slides. Open a file, point to it, name the concept it demonstrates.
• Pair students across disciplines — a CS student and a humanities student on one vault surfaces the dual-audience tension immediately.
• Use convergence as the grading heuristic: a well-designed mission narrows broad scope to specific action. Vague objectives are the most common failure mode.

Next Steps