What is vibe coding?

Vibe coding is building software at the level of intent: you describe outcomes, an
AI coding agent — Claude Code,
OpenAI Codex, Cursor,
Google Antigravity —
edits the files, runs the tests and executes the commands, and you review, correct and
steer. It is the fastest-growing way to build software in 2026, and most of what teaches
it is a YouTube tour, not a curriculum.

This repo is the open-source home of Vibe Code School: the
full vibe coding roadmap, the outline of all 170 lessons, the AI Coding
Dictionary as plain markdown, working demo apps with their build logs, copy-paste
templates (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, slash commands, hooks), and a curated awesome list.
The interactive versions — agent-session replays you scrub through, hands-on steps,
quizzes, XP and streaks — are free on the site, no signup required.

🗺️ The roadmap

→ roadmap/README.md — the full learning path from "never
opened a terminal" to running a fleet of agents, with a diagram, a module-by-module
breakdown and an FAQ. Interactive version with progress tracking:
vibecodeschool.com/roadmap.

📚 The courses

Every lesson is a walkthrough you run on your own machine, a sandbox replay you scrub
through turn by turn, or a concept lesson — gated by a quiz before you can mark it
complete. Finish a course, print a
free certificate. Builders start with Course 01;
non-coders start with Claude Cowork or ChatGPT Work.

📖 The AI Coding Dictionary

→ dictionary/README.md — 81 agentic-coding terms in plain
English, one markdown file each: context window, compaction, harness, hooks, subagents,
skills, AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md, permission modes, plan mode, worktrees, headless mode,
prompt injection, AFK, human-in-the-loop, vibe coding itself. Each entry covers the
mechanism, the symptom you'll recognise, what to do about it, and how the concept shows
up in Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Updated weekly by a scheduled agent.
Interactive version with search and cross-links:
vibecodeschool.com/ai-coding-dictionary.

Companion reference on the site: the
Claude Code Cheat Sheet — every
command, slash command, permission mode, config file, hook event and MCP command on one page.

🧪 Live demos — apps + every prompt that built them

→ demos/ — small apps vibe-coded with Claude Code,
running live on the site. Each folder has the
full prompt-by-prompt build log (including the bugs and how the corrections were
phrased), the exact source (MIT), and a remix prompt to rebuild it yourself:

🧰 Templates — copy-paste the toolchain

→ templates/ — the artifacts the courses teach you to build,
ready to adapt:

• CLAUDE.md templates — project memory for web apps, Expo
  mobile apps and monorepos (or generate one from a form)
• Slash commands — /review-pr, /add-tests,
  /fix-issue, /draft-changelog, /find-todos, /explain
• Hook recipes — auto-format on edit, protect files, test after change
• AGENTS.md template — the cross-tool / Codex counterpart

😎 Awesome Vibe Coding

→ awesome/README.md — a curated list of vibe coding tools
(Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Gemini CLI, Aider…), courses across every
platform (including our competitors — it's an honest list), tutorials, communities and
reference reading.

More on the site

• Can I Vibe Code It? — 158 popular
  SaaS tools with an honest verdict on whether you can vibe-code a personal alternative,
  plus the one-shot prompt to build it.
• AI career roadmaps — 14 AI-era roles
  (Forward Deployed Engineer, Vibe Coder, Agent Engineer, AI PM…) with skills, salaries
  and proof-of-work checkpoints.
• Agents compared — Claude Code vs Codex,
  Claude Code vs Cursor, Claude Cowork vs ChatGPT Work, and more.
• How to vibe code anything — a game,
  a mobile app, a Chrome extension, a SaaS, a Discord bot, a dashboard, a portfolio.
• Field notes — the best vibe coding courses
  compared, learning from scratch, bootcamps, platforms.
• For AI assistants: llms.txt and
  llms-full.txt.

🤝 Contributing

Spotted an outdated fact in a lesson or a dictionary entry? Know a tool the awesome list
is missing? Want to translate the roadmap? PRs are welcome — see
CONTRIBUTING.md. Curriculum and dictionary files are generated from
the site's source of truth, so content fixes get applied there and re-exported with
credit to you.

⭐ Star history

If this roadmap, the courses or the dictionary help you, star the repo — stars are
how other learners find it.

📜 License & credits

• Code (scripts, site snippets, demo sources): MIT
• Content (roadmap, course outlines, lesson text, dictionary): CC BY-SA 4.0 — reuse freely with attribution and keep derivatives open.

Built by Dinesh Puppala (vibecodeschool.com).