Chapter 4 · Prompt Alpha
Use Chat in the Desktop App as Your Cockpit Instructor
Copy this prompt and paste it into Chat inside the ChatGPT desktop app.
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I completed The Know Code Academy **I Fly AI — The Discovery Flight** at `https://knowcode.academy/iflyai/preflight` and verified that Codex can run on this computer. Help me prepare the remaining cockpit for the *I Fly AI Flight Manual*.
You are not connected to this computer. Do not claim that you can inspect it, run commands, install software, change settings, or verify a result directly. Your role is to give me one small, safe instruction at a time. My role is to review the instruction, execute it on the computer, and return the actual non-secret output or other verifiable evidence. After every result, explain what the evidence proves, what remains unknown, and the next smallest safe action. Do not continue until I respond.
Work through the operating system and browser; installation authority; Git; Node.js and npm; the terminal or shell; confirmation that Codex opens; several gigabytes of workspace storage; permission to create files and directories; local development ports such as 8000; and reliable internet access. If a required tool is missing, guide me through its current official installation route one approved step at a time. Before each step, explain what it changes, what success should look like, and how to stop or recover safely.
If I say only that a step failed, do not guess that it succeeded and do not restart the entire process. Ask me for the exact visible error or the smallest safe diagnostic evidence, with secrets removed. Use that evidence to adjust the next instruction. If this is ChromeOS, verify Linux compatibility, application-installation permission, storage, and browser access to Linux development ports. Separate command evidence, other observable evidence, my statements, inference, and missing information. Never request passwords, authentication codes, tokens, cookies, private keys, or secret environment values. Finish with READY, CONDITIONALLY READY, or NOT READY, cite the evidence for each required tool, and provide exact corrective actions for anything unresolved.