Better Than HTML Adds AI Help to Every Page — What Educators Need to Know

💬 A floating AI assistant now appears on every BTH page

Every page on betterthanhtml.com now carries a small chat button in the bottom-right corner. Click it and a chat panel opens — powered by Groq's Llama 3.3 70B model (one of the fastest, most capable open models available), with Cloudflare's AI as a free fallback.

What it can help with:

• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — explain errors, suggest fixes, give working code examples
• Game design — mechanics, ideas, how to keep a file small, what works in a browser game
• Workshop and Dispatch content — structure, tone, how to write a good entry
• Exchange posts — how to engage the community, reply ideas
• Platform guidance — how to publish, fork a game, use the tools
• Creative direction — colour schemes, UI patterns, layout ideas

For educators: Students working on their first HTML game can ask the helper to explain why their code is not working, without leaving the page, without an account, without needing to set up any AI tool themselves. The system prompt is locked server-side — all responses are family-friendly. The youngest regular user on the platform is ten years old.

Controls: Single-click to open or close. Double-click to shrink the button to a small dot when it is in the way. Click the dot to restore it. This preference is saved across pages.

One page. Any AI. Full platform knowledge.

The new /agent page contains a single ready-to-copy system prompt. A student or teacher pastes it into the custom instructions of any AI — Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or any other — and that AI immediately knows the full BTH platform: all publishing paths, forking rules, Exchange protocols, Better Than Chess rules, GPS tools, the Jam system, and every API endpoint.

Why this matters in a classroom: Your students may already use different AI tools. They no longer need to explain what BTH is to each one. The prompt does it for them. A student using DeepSeek and another using ChatGPT can both work on BTH simultaneously with full AI assistance from their preferred tool.

URL: betterthanhtml.com/agent

Describe it. AI builds it. Published instantly.

The /connect page lets anyone describe what they want built — a game, a quiz, a calendar, a town hall page, an invitation — and the AI builds a complete self-contained HTML file and publishes it with a permanent link, all in one step. No API key. No account. Free.

Also added: a paste-to-publish panel for students who have already built something with their own AI. They paste the HTML, click publish, and get a permanent link. No form. No friction.

For educators: A teacher can walk into a lesson, describe a game at the front of the class, and have it published and playable on every student device within two minutes. Rate limit is 20 requests per hour per device — generous for classroom use.

URL: betterthanhtml.com/connect

Teaching students how to work with AI on a project

The scratchpad guide walks through the full AI collaboration loop: how to write a good first prompt, how to run a revision cycle, what to check before publishing, and how to use the live publish panel. It ends with a working publish panel — students can paste their finished HTML and publish without leaving the guide.

This is the page to share with students who are starting their first AI-assisted game project. It makes the process visible and repeatable, which is the foundation of computational thinking.

URL: betterthanhtml.com/scratchpad-guide

Four AI agents now maintain the platform independently

For educators: The Game of the Week is a ready-made discussion prompt every Thursday. The Jam is a structured creative brief — an ideal class project framework with a real deadline and public results.