Used by students and professors at Duke University
Byline is the agentic writing platform built for responsible AI in education. Students learn to work with agents, skills, plans, and reviewable edits in a guided document space that makes AI visible without doing the work for them.
Learn to work with agents.
Byline makes the whole loop visible, so AI becomes a teachable workflow instead of hidden output. Edit any text, invoke a skill, review the agent's plan, and decide what enters the document.
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Agent edit
ReviewingThe strongest evidence is the interview quote because it shows what changed after the prototype why the prototype change supports the claim.
Byline Agent updated the explanation so the evidence supports the claim instead of just describing the timeline.
Turn good writing judgment into reusable skills.
Skills turn repeatable guidance into something Byline Agent can follow. Write a skill like any other document, then invoke it when the agent needs that process.
Skills
Evidence Fit
Skill preview
When
Use when evidence is present but its relationship to the claim is unclear.
Process
Check what the evidence directly supports, what it does not support, and whether the reasoning connects them.
Output
If the evidence fits, propose a reviewable revision. If not, explain the mismatch and ask for better evidence.
Review process without guesswork.
The authorship record forms while writing happens. Insights shows typed words, pasted research, translated passages, generated text, and agentic edits in one report.
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Quick Insights
1412 words / 2 authors
Why Byline exists
AI is becoming part of how people write, create, build, and work. It brings exciting change and innovation, but it also raises an important question: how do we best prepare students for this shift? They need a thoughtful place to learn, practice, and ask good questions before these tools become part of their working and personal lives.
I built Byline to teach agentic AI responsibly through a system that can guide, explain, plan, and help with writing while preserving critical thought and keeping human judgment visible.
My goal is to prepare students for the real tools they will meet beyond school, without teaching them to outsource judgment or turning their learning process into surveillance.
- Ryan Bolick, founder of Byline
Questions & answers
Give students a place to practice agentic AI.
Let them guide agents, review suggestions, revise with peers, and show how the document came together.