Badges

The badge map

Eight course badges, two track badges. A badge is earned when all five checkpoint claim codes of a course are recorded — self-reported evidence, not a certificate.

Course badges

One per course, five checkpoints each

Beginner

Reproduce the failure

Hands-on Python with Claude Code — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

Reproduce with Codex in the loop

Hands-on with the OpenAI Codex App — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

Reproduce with Cursor in the loop

Hands-on with Cursor — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

Reproduce with DeepSeek Harness in the loop

Hands-on with DeepSeek Harness — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

Reproduce with Kimi Code in the loop

Hands-on with Kimi Code — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

Reproduce with ZCode in the loop

Hands-on with ZCode — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Measure the drift

One source of truth for agent rules — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

It runs is not evidence

From “it runs” to “it ships”: verifying AI-generated code — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Advanced

MCP Tool Server

Give your agent tools with MCP (Python) — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Beginner

EDA Challenger

Exploratory Data Analysis with an Agent — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Visualization Challenger

Data Visualization with an Agent — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Report Challenger

From Analysis to Report with an Agent — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Suite That Catches

pytest in the Loop — Tests That Catch Bugs — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Shipped a CLI

Package and Ship a CLI — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Intermediate

Verified API

A Verified Web API — 50 badge points + 50 from checkpoints

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Path badges

Finish the route

500+ pts

Agent User

Agent tools foundation — badge lands at 500 pts (pick-one forks count once); completionists can bank up to 1010 pts

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600+ pts

Data Analysis Agent

Data analysis with agents — badge lands at 600 pts (pick-one forks count once); completionists can bank up to 600 pts

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500+ pts

Toolchain Builder

Python developer toolchain with agents — badge lands at 500 pts (pick-one forks count once); completionists can bank up to 500 pts

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