What is an AI plug?
Not a tutorial you read. A file your assistant reads, so the walkthrough happens inside your setup.
Not filmed yet
The lesson is written out below. The video comes after.
A plug is a markdown file you drop into your own AI. That is the whole format.
The difference from a tutorial is where the work happens. A tutorial is written for the general case, so you have to translate it into your situation — your host, your theme, your file paths, the plugin you have that the author did not. That translation step is where most people quietly give up.
A plug skips it. Your assistant reads the file, then walks you through the thing in your own environment, with your actual files in front of it. Same knowledge, delivered as instructions for the machine instead of prose for you.
They are free, they are plain text, and you can read every line before you use one. That last part is deliberate — see the shelf.
The one thing to keep
A tutorial explains the thing. A plug performs it.
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