New: Markdown Basics

The playbook runs on Markdown — skills, prompts, context files, your AI Registry — but nothing on the site ever explained what Markdown actually is. That gap is now closed, and it caps off a few months of work aimed squarely at readers who aren’t developers.

Markdown Basics

Markdown Basics is a new reference page written for business professionals who have never seen a .md file. It requires nothing installed.

It opens by pointing out that you have already been reading Markdown for months — every formatted answer your AI gives you is rendered Markdown, and those stray **asterisks** that survive a copy-paste are its raw form. From there: six symbols worth knowing, a complete meeting-notes file shown raw and rendered side by side, how to save and open .md files on Mac and Windows, and — the question everyone actually asks — how to get Markdown back out into a Word doc, a PDF, or an email your CEO will read.

It ends with a five-minute exercise that leaves you holding a reusable context file you can attach to any future chat, so you stop re-introducing yourself to your AI.

Builder setup, rebuilt for non-technical readers

The GitHub setup guide was restructured around the two paths people actually take, with the authentication section rewritten in plain language. The vocabulary that used to be buried inside it — repository, commit, push, branch, pull request, merge — now lives in Git Concepts as a reference you can read before touching a terminal.

The AI Registry is Markdown-first

The AI Registry no longer needs Notion. It lives in your workspace as Markdown files, with Notion available as an optional mirror if you like database views. The files are the source of truth.

Which is a good argument for reading the Markdown page first.