Track C · Mastering Claude
From chat to custom agents.
Level 1 Foundations
Meet Claude Model family · Character · Safety
Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku — when to reach for each, what makes Claude different, and the gap between Pro, Max, and Team.
The Claude App End-to-End Chat · Projects · Artifacts
What each surface is for, web vs. desktop vs. mobile, and turning a rough idea into a shareable Artifact in one session.
Prompting Claude Specifically XML · Prefills · Directness
What Claude responds to, controlling personality without losing quality, and when extended thinking helps or just burns tokens.
Level 2 Claude Beyond Chat
Cowork: Claude on Your Desktop Files · Connectors · Live artifacts
Selecting folders, running code, and connecting Slack, Gmail, Calendar, Drive, and Notion — building a live morning-briefing artifact.
Claude in Chrome: The Browser Agent Reading · Forms · Multi-tab
Installing the extension safely and finding where the browser agent beats Cowork or plain chat — automating a task you actually do.
Claude Code & the Agent SDK Terminal · Hooks · Sub-agents
Terminal-native Claude reading a repo, planning, and editing files — with hooks, slash commands, and custom sub-agents.
Level 3 Extending Claude
Skills: Teaching Claude Your Way of Working SKILL.md · Sharing · Marketplace
What a skill is and how discovery works — writing a personal skill for your voice or checklist and shipping it to your team.
MCP: Connecting Claude to Your Tools Registry · Custom servers
What MCP is and how it differs from plain APIs — finding, installing, and building a minimal custom MCP server.
Making Presentations With Claude HTML decks · reveal.js · Animated concepts
HTML decks instead of PowerPoint — prompting Claude to write on-brand, animated slides and shipping a 10-slide deck end-to-end.
Scheduled Agents & Multi-Step Automation Cron · Computer use · Guardrails
Daily briefings, weekly digests, and watch-and-alert patterns — shipping one scheduled agent that does a real job every morning.
Level 4 Capstone
Ship a Claude-Powered Artifact Peer review · Second-opinion clinic
A personal agent, a live dashboard, a deck workflow, or a skill package for your team — reviewed in a second-opinion clinic.
Signature session
The decks on this site were built with Claude.
Session 09 teaches the exact workflow — HTML + reveal.js + a themed CSS system — so you can prompt Claude to produce on-brand, animated presentations without ever opening PowerPoint again.
By the end you can
- Pick the right Claude model for the task in front of you
- Prompt Claude in the patterns it responds to best
- Run Claude on your own files with your own connectors via Cowork
- Delegate real browser work to Claude in Chrome, safely
- Point Claude Code at a repo and ship a change
- Write a skill your future self and your team will use
- Wire up MCP connectors and build a custom server
- Produce a polished, on-brand HTML presentation end-to-end
- Run a scheduled agent that does a real job every morning