Exlen

Exlen

A Learning Environment for Human Expertise Development

Build the expertise that matters in the AI era.

Access the knowledge, environments, and guidance
to practice complex work and build your expertise.

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AI expands what
people can accomplish.

Much of the conversation around AI focuses on the jobs it may replace. We believe it also expands what people can accomplish: enabling more people to solve complex problems and take on more meaningful, higher-value work.

New possibilities. Familiar barriers to learning.

Consider robotics, enterprise AI, cybersecurity, and large-scale data processing. Entering these fields has often required access to scarce training environments and domain-specific knowledge built through experience. Small, dispersed professional communities have made high-quality training and guidance difficult to scale.

These are the barriers we are working to break.

Agentist provides simulated Enterprise Labs for repeated practice, simulated users that make requests and test outcomes, and real-time guidance from Mentor Agents grounded in domain-specific knowledge. Through practice, feedback, and repeated validation, learners build the capabilities to take on higher-value work.

Turn the possibilities AI opens into capabilities people can build.

Explore the labs
The case for virtual labs

Solve complex problems.
Deliver meaningful outcomes.

Practice understanding problems, making decisions, designing solutions, and validating results through industry-based tasks. With prepared environments, domain knowledge, and simulated users, turn what you know into the professional expertise to solve complex problems.

A system already in motion

Start with data, APIs, state machines, and mocked dependencies. In Signal Studio, mocks are built from recorded traffic and validated through contract tests.

Guidance with project context

Ask /lab-assistant about project-specific behavior, hidden interface constraints, and known pitfalls. Get guidance when you need it.

Users that exercise your work

Simulated users run your agent through repeated scenarios. Use /lab-evaluate to inspect outcomes and decide what to improve next.

Build · Evaluate · Improve

Work in the tools you know.
Improve with evidence.

Use your coding agent, submit a completed task for evaluation, and ask for project guidance when you get stuck.

Evaluate your agent

/lab-evaluate t3
  1. Submit your task implementation.
  2. Replay scenarios in the cloud simulation.
  3. Inspect final-state assertions and the pass matrix.

Get project-aware guidance

/lab-assistant why does the handshake fail?
  1. Ask a concrete question about your task.
  2. Get context grounded in the project and reference implementation.
  3. Apply the feedback and run another evaluation.
Evidence · Signal Studio

Built against real interfaces.

The video lab uses recorded traffic to reproduce OBS and editing API behavior. Evaluation checks both what the agent calls and what it leaves behind.

Repository snapshot, September 2026. Reference implementation results are not learner scores. Meridian Air is open; the other two launch in late September.

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Tasks7A progressive engineering sequence
Knowledge points8Project-specific learning objectives
Reference tools37Tools in the solution implementation
Validationk = 3Reference cloud acceptance runs
Availability

One lab open.
Three more in development.

OPENSignal Studio · VideoRecorded traffic, OBS and editing mocks, contract tests, and a cloud evaluation worker. Plugin-side evaluation availability follows the release schedule.
OPENMeridian Air · Airline ERPPassenger records, policy constraints, booking changes, and final-state consistency checks inspired by the τ-bench airline setting.
LATE SEPTEMBERKinema Robotics · Embodied AIUR5 grasping simulation, camera streams, task planning, and safety assertions.
LATE SEPTEMBERSubstrate Inference · Model servingTenant routing, quotas, billing, traffic replay, and service-level checks.
Your next engineering challenge

Start with a problem
worth solving.

Explore the environments, choose an engineering role, and follow a concrete sequence of tasks.

Choose a project ↗

Follow the thinking.
See it take shape.

Explanation, live diagrams, questions, and experiments. Take a minute to meet your interactive classroom.

Agentic Design Patterns

Explore agent engineering through 21 design patterns, from prompt chains to multi-agent systems.
The first 2 lessons are available. Remaining lessons are in preparation.
Course instruction is in Chinese.

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Core patterns

Parallelization

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Core patterns

Reflection

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Core patterns

Tool Use

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Core patterns

Planning

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Multi-Agent Collaboration

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Advanced patterns

Memory Management

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Advanced patterns

Learning & Adaptation

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Advanced patterns

Model Context Protocol

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Advanced patterns

Goals & Monitoring

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Production patterns

Exception Handling & Recovery

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Production patterns

Human in the Loop

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Production patterns

Knowledge Retrieval · RAG

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Enterprise patterns

Agent-to-Agent Communication

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Enterprise patterns

Resource-Aware Optimization

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Enterprise patterns

Reasoning Techniques

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Enterprise patterns

Guardrails & Safety

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Evaluation & Monitoring

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Prioritization

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Exploration & Discovery

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Cohort · Live, mentor-led learning

Learn with mentors.
Build something complete.

Develop your agent engineering practice alongside mentors and peers. Move from principles and architecture to real projects, applying each week’s learning to work that keeps evolving.

Explore Cohort 2
Agentic Engineering Bootcamp · Cohort 2
13 weeks of structured learning

Four weeks of principles and architecture, followed by nine weeks of project work.

3 hours of live instruction weekly

A weekly learning rhythm supported by hands-on labs and evaluations.

A cohort of 40

Work through concrete engineering problems with a consistent group of peers.

Cohort 2 · Applied engineering

Put agent engineering to work.

Build an Auto-Scientist, a video assistant, a persistent personal assistant, or agents for ERP workflows. Connect harnesses, computer use, multi-agent systems, and evaluation through project work.

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Agentist Insights · Chinese / English edited highlights

Perspectives from the frontier.
A clearer view of what comes next.

Considered highlights from conversations with researchers, engineers, and founders. Explore world models, agents, compute, and industry through a different lens in each episode. Original covers and videos retain their source language.

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Agent Online Lab · VS Code + Claude Code in your browser

Open your browser. Start building.

Each learner gets a cloud sandbox with VS Code, a terminal, the official Claude Code extension, and the Parallight plugin ready to use. Launch a lab with one command, with evaluation and project guidance close at hand.

Start a lab/lab-start lab-2-a
Paste the command into the Claude panel. Starter files and model configuration are provisioned for you.
Evaluate each completed task/lab-evaluate t3
Replay your work in the cloud simulation and inspect the scenario pass matrix.
Get help when you get stuck/lab-assistant why …
Ask a project-aware assistant for guidance on pitfalls and next steps.

The first cold start takes about a minute. Enrolled and trial accounts can access the environment; visitors will see enrollment options. Evaluation and project assistance require a paid learner account. Some lab materials may be in Chinese.