# From Chat to Work

Canonical course: https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/
Course manifest: https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/course-manifest.json
Provider: MTF Institute of Management, Technology and Finance
Language: English
Access: Free, self-paced and available without registration
Estimated learning time: 55 minutes
Last content review: 25 July 2026

## Direct answer

From Chat to Work is a six-lesson interactive course for professionals who want to move from isolated prompts in ChatGPT or Gemini to supervised, file-based work in agentic environments such as Codex and Claude Code. It teaches a visible loop of goal, context, action and evidence.

## What learners practice

1. Decide when a chat is sufficient and when a workspace is needed.
2. Write an agent-ready brief with a goal, context, boundaries and a checkable finish.
3. Select a relevant and minimal evidence boundary.
4. Match tools and permissions to consequence and reversibility.
5. Verify outputs with sources, checks and visible evidence.
6. Build a reusable workflow brief for Codex or Claude Code.

## Lessons

1. [Choose chat or an agentic workspace](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0001-from-chat-to-agent.html)
2. [Write an agent-ready work brief](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0002-write-the-work-brief.html)
3. [Build the context boundary](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0003-build-the-context-boundary.html)
4. [Control tools and permissions](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0004-control-permissions.html)
5. [Verify before you trust](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0005-verify-the-output.html)
6. [Design your first repeatable workflow](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/lessons/0006-design-your-workflow.html)

## Privacy and technical behavior

The course does not request personal data, submit forms, load external JavaScript, set cookies or send course events to a server. Progress is stored only in the learner's browser under the localStorage key `mtf-ai-work-course-v1`. Reset removes that saved progress.

## Reference materials

- [Printable agentic work playbook](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/reference/agentic-work-playbook.html)
- [Primary sources used by the course](https://mtfinstitute.com/courses/modern-ai-work/reference/sources.html)

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