About
Becoming an AI Agent Architect is an in-person workshop for AI users who are ready to take the next step in their AI journey.
Instructor, Kris Hagel has designed this session in four parts:
- The Aha Moment - A live demo of an AI agent handling a real administrator workflow autonomously — not answering a question, actually doing the work across multiple steps without being hand-held. This is what shifts how people think about what AI can do.
- The Mental Model - How agents actually work, and what Agent Skills are. The short version: a Skill is like training a new hire. You document how something gets done once, and from that point on any agent — yours or someone else's in the district — can load that training and handle that workflow. Build once, use everywhere.
- The Build - Each participant builds their first Agent Skill around a real pain point they brought with them. They choose the workflow. I provide the structure and support to build it well. What they build goes home with them and is ready to use the next day.
- The Bridge - We close by walking through exactly what participants do next — how to expand what they built, how to start thinking about connecting multiple skills together, and where this is heading.
What Participants Might Build
Participants choose their own pain point, but most administrator workflows fall into one of these five categories:
- Drafts parent letters, board updates, or staff memos in the administrator's voice and their district's tone - A Communication Skill
- Turns meeting notes, reports, or data into executive summaries for a specific audience - A Summarizer Skill
- Checks documents against a standard: policy language, evaluation criteria, grant requirements - A Reviewer Skill
- Briefs you before meetings, difficult conversations, or presentations - A Preparer Skill
- Handles a specific category of incoming requests consistently: complaints, media inquiries, staff concerns - A Responder Skill
- Two district leaders could both build a Communication Skill that looks completely different because it reflects their voice and their context — but the underlying structure is the same, which is what makes it teachable in a half day.
One Thing Worth Knowing
Agent Skills is an open standard — originally developed by Anthropic and now supported across Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace, GitHub Copilot, and others. What participants build in this session doesn’t lock you into working with Claude. It travels with you regardless of what tools your district uses.
The goal of the day isn't to teach a specific tool. It's to change how administrators think about what AI can actually do for you — and to give you something real to start with. The skill they build is the first step toward an AI that works for you in the way a good Chief of Staff would.
IMPORTANT - What Participants MUST Bring to the Workshop:
This is a working session. Participants need to come prepared with two things:
First, their laptop with the following set up before they arrive:
- A Claude.ai Pro subscription ($20/month at claude.ai)
- Claude Desktop app installed — free at claude.com/download, works on Mac and Windows
- The Cowork tab visible in Claude Desktop — it appears automatically once the app is updated.
- When you return to your district this is a temporary participant cost — and if your district already has a way to run Agent Skills (Microsoft Copilot, Google Workspace, etc.), when you return to your district you can cancel the Claude.ai Pro subscription. The goal is to have a capable tool in your hands for the day, not to lock anyone into a subscription.
Second, something real to work with:
- One workflow from their job that costs them real time every week
- A couple of examples of that work done well — an email, a document, a report, whatever it is.
Date
May 11, 2026
8 a.m. – 12 p.m.