The Practitioner — Phil Rust
Companion Resources
Templates, skills, and tools from the book — in one place. Everything here is designed to be used, not just read.
The Practitioner points to resources throughout its chapters and appendices. This page is where they live. Each skill is a self-contained, practical guide you can work through independently. The templates are ready to copy or download.
If you have not read the book, you can use these resources directly — they are written to stand on their own. If you have, the references in each skill point back to the relevant chapter.
Skills
Skill
Reflection Loop
A fifteen-minute end-of-session protocol for AI-augmented work. Five questions that extract learning from every build session.
Skill
Lineage Automation
How to go from manual AI lineage logging to an automated workflow that captures your working process as a byproduct of how you work.
Skill
Building Your Shoal
How to find, start, and maintain a small group of practitioners who compound your learning — including cold-start approaches for remote practitioners.
Skill
Error-Pattern Library
A personal AI-assisted database of failures and their extracted lessons — two-step capture, AI-assisted processing, and pattern-finding over time.
Skill
Article Accelerator
A human-led, AI-assisted workflow for producing rigorous, adversarially-reviewed written content — from rough idea to publish-ready article.
Templates
Ready-to-use Markdown templates from the Transparent AI in Education framework (Appendix B). Copy the structure or download the files directly.
Template
Student Lineage Document
The full lineage template for tracking AI-assisted research and build work — from original idea through to refined output.
Template
Tutor Observation MD
The complementary template for educators — AI completeness sweep, personal review, and gate decision in a single structured document.
About the book
The Practitioner is a guide for young practitioners entering an AI-era workplace. It is about finding the creed you already hold, building the tree of knowledge that makes your judgement valuable, and navigating the first sea with the tools to read the water.
Written by Phil Rust. Published 2026.