# Jeff Kazzee

Self-taught builder in the United States. I write free guides for building real
systems on a computer you own, and I build software with AI agents.

Every page of this site is available as Markdown. Send `Accept: text/markdown`,
or append `.md` to any path.

## Free guides

1,450 guides and recipes, all public, no email gate.

- [Zo Deep Dives](https://deepdives.zocomputer101.wiki) (85 guides): Field manuals for building working systems on Zo Computer. Every guide carries exact steps, safety limits, a verification test, and its sources.
- [Zo Computer 101](https://www.zocomputer101.wiki) (66 guides and 137 recipes): The field guide for a first week on Zo Computer: memory, the browser, hosting, automations, and personas, plus copy-paste recipe packs.
- [Zo Cookbook](https://www.zo-cookbook.space) (1,162 recipes): App ideas, space configurations, automation recipes, and prompts, browsable by category and searchable.

## Selected work

- [Zo Deep Dives](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/zo-deep-dives/): 85 guides for building working systems on Zo Computer. Every guide carries exact steps, safety limits, a verification test, and its sources.
- [Zo Computer 101](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/zo-computer-101/): A searchable field guide to Zo Computer with 66 beginner guides and 137 copy-paste automation recipes.
- [Zo Cookbook](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/zo-cookbook/): 1,162 recipes for building with your Zo Computer: app ideas, space configurations, automation recipes, and high-leverage prompts.
- [sdlc-skills](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/sdlc-skills/): The software development lifecycle as installable agent skills. Plan, design, test, implement, review, and learn, on whatever coding agent you use.
- [Open World Factbook](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/open-world-factbook/): The world's most comprehensive open-source country database. 262 countries and territories, free forever.
- [LLM Arcade](https://jeffkazzee.dev/projects/llm-arcade/): A social arcade with 11 games, open as a pre-launch preview. AI agents wrote every line of the code.

## Writing

- [How I got paid for free guides I wrote about an AI tool](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/a-company-paid-me-for-guides-i-gave-away/): Zo Computer licensed my free beginner guides for real money. How publishing free documentation under your own name turns into income, and how to do it yourself.
- [Whose computer are you building on?](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/whose-computer-are-you-building-on/): AI tools are the means of production now, and most of us are renting them.
- [Cheap AI Was a Sale. The Bill Is Coming.](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/cheap-ai-was-a-sale-the-bill-is-coming/): I run my work on AI on a low income. Here is why the price is about to turn, and why I'm not panicking.
- [Five Zo Cookbook recipes worth running tonight](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/five-zo-cookbook-recipes-worth-running/): Five Zo Computer recipes worth running tonight: a creeping bill, a phishing email, a school form on the counter, your mom's bills, a tired week.
- [How to learn with AI without getting dumber](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/how-to-learn-with-ai-without-getting/): A four-step workshop on using AI to build a skill instead of outsourcing the effort.
- [How to self-host any app without writing code (and what breaks the first time)](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/how-to-self-host-any-app-without/): The exact prompt I used to install an open-source design tool on my own cloud server, the three things that broke, and one chat message that fixed each.
- [Tech's silence on ICE is not neutral](https://jeffkazzee.dev/blog/techs-silence-on-ice-is-not-neutral/): A note about a line I have had in my bio for months, and what an AI agent showed me this week.

## Machine interfaces

- [MCP server](https://jeffkazzee.dev/api/mcp): Streamable HTTP. POST JSON-RPC. Start with the `list_guide_libraries` tool.
- [A2A agent card](https://jeffkazzee.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json): JSON-RPC agent endpoint at https://jeffkazzee.dev/api/a2a
- [API catalog](https://jeffkazzee.dev/.well-known/api-catalog): RFC 9727 linkset of every endpoint here
- [Agent skills](https://jeffkazzee.dev/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json): skills published by this site
- [Content index](https://jeffkazzee.dev/api/content.json): guides, projects, and writing in one JSON document
- [How it all works](https://jeffkazzee.dev/for-agents/): the standards implemented and how to call them

## Contact

- Email: jeffkazzee@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Jeff-Kazzee
- Teaching and consulting: https://jeffkazzee.dev/work-with-me/

## Optional

- [Expanded index](https://jeffkazzee.dev/llms-full.txt): every library, project, and post in one file