RAG Chatbot
A 16-lesson, step-by-step tutorial on RAG — teaching AI to search your own notes for a real answer instead of just guessing from memory. It goes all the way through building an Ask Your Notes bot.
18 Lessons · 180 min · Learning Platform Editorial Team
What you need on the desk
- A modern browser
- A notebook or text editor
- Optional: Node.js — for the project lesson
Know this much before you start
- Have opened an AI chat and asked it a question before
- Some exposure to AI Foundations or AI Agents helps, though it isn't required
- Optional: being able to write a few short note files yourself
By the end, you can
- Explain RAG as an open-book exam
- Tell chatbots, agents, and RAG apart
- Design the loop of picking files, splitting them into chunks, and searching before reading
- Pair a grounded answer with its source
- Know when to stop if nothing turns up, and keep secrets from leaking
- Finish a working, explainable Ask Your Notes bot