Give students a place to practice agentic AI

Prototype Testing Memo

DTI 590 • Design Engineering

Suggested revision

The strongest evidence is the interview quote because it shows what changed after the prototype why the prototype change supports the claim.

Byline Agent usedRubric Checkto keep the quote and connect the evidence back to the claim.

Authorship Insights

1412 words / 2 authors

Bentley James
Paige Turner

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.

01Agentic collaboration

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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Agentic collaboration

Agent edit

Reviewing

The 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.

Edit ready
02Skills

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

Does this quote actually support my point about the prototype? Use Evidence Fit before suggesting a revision.

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.

03Authorship

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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Authorship

Quick Insights

1412 words / 2 authors

Bentley James
Paige Turner

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

No. Byline is designed to keep students in the work. When a prompt tries to outsource an assignment, the agent moves toward scaffolds, evidence plans, outlines, focused questions, or reviewable edits that preserve the student's judgment.

Give students a place to practice agentic AI.

Let them guide agents, review suggestions, revise with peers, and show how the document came together.

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