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Freddy the Notetaker

A complete course on building real software with Elyra: from a vague idea to a shipped product, one chapter at a time. Not a command reference — a journey. You will meet every important Elyra feature exactly where it earns its keep.

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14 chapters · from idea to ship · free

The 14 chapters
  1. 01 The Idea Freddy doesn't exist yet. All you have is a feeling: "every notes app annoys me, I want my own." This chapter is about turning that feeling into a spec — using Elyra as a thinking partner, not a code printer.
  2. 02 Project Setup Freddy has a spec. Now he needs bones: a Laravel + Svelte scaffold, an AGENTS.md so every future session knows the house rules, and the right extensions installed. Total time: about fifteen minutes, most of it Composer.
  3. 03 Getting Connected Freddy is scaffolded but the brain isn't wired yet. This chapter is the shortest and the most consequential: providers, models, and thinking levels decide the cost and quality of every session that follows.
  4. 04 The First Feature Time to write code: creating a note. This chapter is about the edit loop — the tight cycle you and Elyra will live in for the rest of the project — and the LSP machinery that makes it check its own work.
  5. 05 The Database Freddy gets tags — and the schema that will power search in Chapter 9. The theme of this chapter: stop letting the agent guess what your database looks like when it can simply ask.
  6. 06 Giving Freddy a Face The Capture and Browse screens get real styling — and the chapter's big idea: an agent that can see the UI it builds stops needing you as its eyes.
  7. 07 Tests That Keep Freddy Honest Six chapters in, most of Freddy's code was written by an agent. This chapter is about the only verification that doesn't depend on the agent that did the writing: tests. And about /goal, which turns "make the tests pass" into a loop you don't have to supervise.
  8. 08 Code Review, Properly Tests catch what you thought to test. Review catches what you didn't think of at all. This chapter is about getting a review that's actually independent — from a model that doesn't share the author's blind spots.
  9. 09 The Big Feature: Search Search is why Freddy exists — it's in the first line of SPEC.md. It's also the biggest feature so far, and this chapter is about not supervising it: a swarm pipeline builds the whole thing in an isolated git worktree while your working tree stays untouched.
  10. 10 When Things Go Sideways Nine chapters of things going right. This one is about the other days — when the agent takes a confident wrong turn — and about why, in Elyra, that costs you two minutes instead of an afternoon.
  11. 11 Teaching Freddy's Team Freddy has a team of one human and several models — and every session, the models show up with amnesia. This chapter is about making knowledge stick: memory for facts, skills for procedures, snippets for prompts, blueprints for whole sessions.
  12. 12 Daily Rhythm Not every hour on Freddy is feature work. There's the work between the work — remembering where you were, writing commit messages, debugging the dev environment. This chapter hands all of it to the agent.
  13. 13 Watching the Meters Freddy is nearly done, and so is your provider credit — faster than expected. This chapter is about seeing what agent work costs, routing each turn to the right-sized model, and letting local evidence grade the lineup.
  14. 14 Shipping Freddy Freddy works at https://freddy.test. That's not shipped — that's "done on my machine." The last mile is an audit, metadata, docs, and a deploy: the unglamorous checklist work agents happen to be perfect for.