Every class you are taking has an AI paragraph, and they do not agree with each other. In one sitting you are going to read them, sort what you actually do into three piles, write down your line for one class, and send the email that settles the part you are unsure about. You finish holding a written line and an email ready to go tonight.
A working session from Harvest Kernel. Nothing here is saved, nothing is sent, and no account is needed. Copy your work out before you close the tab.
Seed
Start with one class. The hardest one.
Not all four at once. Pick the class where you are least sure what you are allowed to do, because that is the one that is going to cost you something.
Open the syllabus. Find the AI section. Paste the words in, exactly as written. Do not summarize it. The exact wording is the whole point.
Most policies are built from a few phrases: unauthorized use, without attribution, your own original work, substantially generated by AI. Which phrases are in yours, and what do you think each one is trying to stop?
Sprout
Now sort what you actually do. Three piles.
Your real habits, not the ones you think you should have. Write down what you did last week.
Be specific. “Had it explain the second half of chapter four when the textbook lost me.” “Made myself twelve practice questions off my own lecture notes and answered them cold.”
This is the most valuable pile and most students leave it empty because it is uncomfortable. Outlining before you write. Grammar and clarity passes on a finished draft. Getting feedback on an argument you built yourself.
Name it plainly. A line you have written down is easier to hold at one in the morning than a line you have only felt.
Grow
Say it out loud in one sentence.
If you cannot say your line to the professor’s face without flinching, it is not your line yet. It is a hope.
Format that works: “In this class I use AI to [the allowed thing], I do not use it to [the never thing], and I am checking on [the gray thing].”
Harvest
Write the email. Send it tonight.
Do not ask “can I use AI.” That gets you a copy of the policy you already read. Name the one specific thing from your ASK FIRST pile and ask about that.
Short. One habit. One question. Something like: “I want to use an AI tool to quiz me on the reading before the exam and explain concepts I get stuck on. I would not use it to write anything I turn in. Is that alright in this course?”
That is one class.
Look at your schedule. You are taking three or four more, and every one of them has a different AI paragraph written by a different person with a different worry. The sorting you just did does not transfer. You get to do it again, from scratch, for each one.
And when you finish all four you will be holding something you did not have an hour ago, and you will notice immediately that it is only half of what you need. You will know exactly what you are allowed to do. You still will not know how to actually do it well.
That gap is the whole difference between a prompt and pray student and a SeedStacking student. One pastes the assignment in and hopes. The other uses AI to get explained to, quizzed and coached, and walks into the exam able to retrieve what they know.
AI Foundations is where the second half starts. It is on the free tier of the Student Toolkit, it takes you from zero to a first real win safely, and it does not need an AI account of your own.
Your line, ready to copy
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