Mini Projects and Starter Code

These mini projects turn the 28-day plan into runnable work. Each project is small enough to finish in a focused session, but structured enough to produce artifacts you can reuse in labs, portfolio notes, and interview answers.

Project Map

Week	Mini project	What you practice	Primary code
Week 1	RAG Foundations Lab	Prompt building, chunking, retrieval, grounding, summarization	week01-rag-foundations/cli.py
Week 2	Agent Reliability Lab	Tool schemas, approval gates, retries, escalation, trace logs	week02-agent-reliability/cli.py
Week 3	Eval and Ops Lab	Golden datasets, release gates, traces, readiness review	week03-eval-observability/cli.py