In a world full of AI agents, we give young people agency in real life. On-demand training where they build a local-first AI assistant that walks them through the eight essential life skills of the onetoeight guide — personalising each one with activities that fit their life.
The agent also helps with homework, planning, and the day ahead. No coding experience needed. Everything lives on their device after a one-time $5 OpenCode Go setup. Plus a weekly live Q&A session every Monday at 5:00 PM.
Your teen learns through on-demand training modules they can follow at their own pace, on their own schedule. Each module covers a piece of the build, with step-by-step video and hands-on exercises.
Then, every Monday at 5:00 PM, we come together for a live Q&A session — bring your questions, get help, and learn alongside other teens. For one hour, we work together to build a personal AI agent using Hermes — a free, local-first agent platform that runs on a laptop or desktop.
Set up requires a one-time $5 OpenCode Go account; after that, no data leaves the device for everyday use.
The agent's primary job is to guide your teen through the eight essentials of onetoeight — with personalised activities the agent designs for them. Homework help, planning, and research are the bonus, not the point.
This programme is fully secular. The eight essentials — silence, body, community, nature, digital self-defence, life skills, knowledge, and tested convictions — are practical foundations for any young person. Your teen tailors their agent to reflect their own beliefs and values. No worldview is pushed. No pressure to think otherwise.
Through on-demand training modules, your teen configures their agent to perform three daily rituals. By the end, these run automatically — the agent greets them after school, helps them plan, and speaks a one-minute morning briefing when they wake up.
Your teen sits down, opens their agent, and talks. How was the day? What's weighing on you? What's the plan tonight? The agent listens, reflects, and helps them decompress before screen time takes over. It's a grounding conversation — the essential of silence and real community in practice.
Before bed, the agent helps them map tomorrow. School tasks, homework deadlines, the essential they're working on this week, one real-world thing they want to do. The agent drafts the plan, your teen edits it, and it saves locally. No app, no account, no cloud sync — just their agent remembering for them.
This is the magic. Each morning, the agent generates a one-minute text-to-speech audio briefing — their plan, their essential for the week, a thought to carry, a breath to take. Your teen wakes up, presses play, and starts the day with intention instead of a feed. The agent builds it overnight from yesterday's plan.
The onetoeight programme has eight essentials — the eight insights a screen-born generation needs. Your teen's agent is configured to teach each one, with activities it personalises for who they are. Not generic worksheets. Not a one-size app. The agent learns your teen and tailors the essential to their world.
Agent activity: guides a one-minute silence timer, asks what they noticed, and sets a daily "stillness challenge" scaled to their comfort level.
PersonalisedAgent activity: tracks one health habit your teen chooses — sleep, movement, hydration — and checks in daily without nagging.
PersonalisedAgent activity: shares a short passage each morning, asks one reflection question, and connects it to something happening in their week.
PersonalisedAgent activity: suggests one outdoor action based on their location and weather — a walk, a sit, a photo of something growing — and asks them to report back.
PersonalisedAgent activity: runs a weekly screen-time review, helps them set one boundary, and teaches them how algorithms work so they can recognise the patterns.
PersonalisedAgent activity: picks one real-world skill each week — cooking a meal, writing an email, managing money — and breaks it into doable steps they can tick off.
PersonalisedAgent activity: prompts one real-world connection action — a conversation, a thank-you, a visit — and follows up to ask how it went.
PersonalisedAgent activity: sets a weekly character challenge — honesty, courage, patience — and helps them reflect on what they learned when it got hard.
PersonalisedThe agent isn't reading from a script. During the live sessions, your teen tells the agent about themselves — what they like, what's hard, what their week looks like. The agent uses that to design activities that actually fit. A sporty kid gets a different Body-as-Temple challenge than a bookish one. A teen who's anxious about screens gets a gentler Digital Self-Defence ramp than one who's already cutting back.
Every activity is saved locally with a short reflection. By the end of the programme, your teen has a portfolio of eight personalised essential challenges — and an agent that knows them well enough to keep going.
Here's how the agent weaves the essential of the week into an everyday afterschool check-in — without sounding like a textbook.
Simple daily check-ins. How was school? What's on tonight? The agent learns their schedule, their triggers, their interests — and what "a bad day" actually means to them.
Tired on Mondays. Maths anxiety on Thursdays. Focus dips after lunch. The agent quietly connects the dots across conversations and starts planning around them — not against them.
Stillness becomes a two-minute reset before maths revision. Body-as-temple becomes a movement break that fits their sport. The curriculum stops being generic — it's tailored to their world, one conversation at a time.
Morning Minute speaks their day into focus. After-school check-in plans the evening. The eight essentials unfold week by week — each one delivered the way this teen actually learns.
Your teen works through the training modules at their own pace — any day, any time. Then every Monday at 5:00 PM, join the live Q&A session for help, feedback, and community.
Each module pairs a build layer with a new essential. Work through them at your own pace. By the final module, the agent teaches all eight — with personalised activities for each — and the three daily rituals run on autopilot.
The Afterschool Agent programme is hosted by a safeguarding-cleared facilitator. Before any teen logs on, the host holds the following verified credentials:
State-issued clearance confirming the host is approved to work with minors — the baseline requirement for any programme involving young people.
National Disability Insurance Scheme clearance, verifying the host meets the strict conduct and safety standards required to support vulnerable participants.
Current accredited training in emergency first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation — because a responsible host is prepared for the physical as well as the digital.
Accredited training in recognising and responding to mental health challenges in young people — knowing the signs, how to listen, and when to escalate to professional support.
Four checks. One promise: your teen learns in a space that is supervised, safe, and accountable.
Pay once. Get full access to all training modules, the weekly live Q&A, and the community. The software is free forever — you're paying for the instruction, the guided build, and the support.
This is a self-paced build, not a magic install. To get the most out of the Afterschool Agent programme, you'll need these things in place first. None of them are expensive — but they are real.
A personal laptop or desktop running Windows, macOS, or Linux — one the teen has full admin access to. Not a school laptop. School-issued machines typically block installations, sandbox new software, and reset on logout — all of which break the agent.
Minimum spec: 8 GB RAM, 2 GB free SSD storage, modern CPU (any laptop made after 2018).
A one-time $5 top-up on an OpenCode Go account at opencode.ai/zen/go. This is required to set up the agent system and configure advanced features. The $5 covers the initial agent build and personalisation step — after that, the agent runs primarily on the device itself.
OpenCode Go gives you access to leading open-source models — DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, GLM, Grok, and more — all behind one pay-as-you-go gateway.
Once set up, the agent runs mostly locally — no ongoing API bills for everyday use. For the best experience, install a small open-source model (we recommend LFM2-700M or similar) directly on the device. It's free, runs offline, and keeps everyday conversations private.
Keep your $5 OpenCode Go balance topped up as you go for advanced tasks (deep personalisation, weekly curriculum reviews, parent reports). Most families find $5 covers the first few months; ongoing costs depend on how heavy the usage is.
The Morning Minute audio briefing and daily check-ins are delivered through Telegram or WhatsApp. Your teen needs a registered account on one of these services on their phone. Both are free and available on any smartphone.
The agent sends messages, not the other way around — no bots, no spam, no data collection. Just a good morning and a plan for the day.
The software itself is free forever. The agent lives on your device. The cost is for the gateway access during setup and the occasional advanced query — not for everyday use.
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