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name: tutorial-guide-operations-and-graduation description: > Nested tutorial-guide reference for lessons 10–12: TUI commands, lifecycle exercises, addons, external connections, and graduation. version: 1.0.0 last_changed_at: "2026-07-18T00:00:00Z" maintenance: "If you find stale or incorrect information here, use the lingtai-issue-report skill to assemble evidence and obtain per-issue human consent before filing an issue. Never include secrets, credentials, tokens, or private paths."

Tutorial Guide — Operations and Graduation Lessons

Nested tutorial-guide reference for operations and graduation lessons 10–12, reached from the root tutorial-guide router. Teach live per the router's discover, don't recite rule: read the real file or run the real command before explaining it.

Lesson 10: TUI Commands and Lifecycle

Read ~/.lingtai-tui/commands.json via bash. Parse the JSON and present each command with its detailed description in the human's language.

Keyboard shortcuts: explain ctrl+o (three verbose modes: off → verbose → extended) and ctrl+e (external editor).

Hands-on lifecycle exercise:

1. /sleep → agent sleeps → human sends message to wake
2. /suspend → agent dies → human uses /refresh to revive → sends message to wake
3. Explain /sleep all and /suspend all for network management

CLI commands: run lingtai-tui --help to discover and explain available subcommands.

Critical warning: closing the TUI does NOT stop agents. They are independent processes. Teach the CLI management commands for headless control.

Lesson 11: Addons — External Connections

Addon setup route:

1. Start with mcp-manual and its reference/curated-addons.md.
2. Use the relevant provider documentation for exact fields and supported setup steps; do not invent config paths or duplicate the kernel schema here.
3. Require explicit authorization before making each config change.

Key concepts to teach:

• Avatars do NOT inherit addons
• /mcp TUI command is read-only inspection of MCP configuration and status; it is not a setup or editor mechanism
• Run /refresh only after an authorized config change

Lesson 12: Graduation

• Congratulate the human.
• Next step: run lingtai-tui in a new project to create their own agent.
• Remind them to follow the current MCP/curated-addon documentation for addon setup, with explicit authorization; use /mcp only to inspect config/status.
• To resume tutorial: rerun lingtai-tui in the same folder. To restart: /nirvana then /setup with Tutorial recipe.
• The network grows with every avatar spawned.