Stop re-explaining your job to Claude every single morning.
Set Claude up once so it already knows your business, your clients and the way you write, then build the jobs you repeat into something you run in a click. This is the setup written down, step by step, by someone who does it every working day.
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Why a whole manual for one tool
Claude ships new capability faster than anyone writes it down. Projects, skills, connectors, hooks, subagents, MCP: each one quietly changes what the tool can do for you, and almost nobody is using more than the chat box. This manual is the map, written by someone who runs Claude every working day to ship real software.
What you will be able to do
Four parts, each one ending with a thing you can do that you could not do before. Every chapter closes with a checklist so you know it worked before you move on.
Claude, hands-on
The tool as it exists today, and how to get real work out of it in the first week.
- The Claude landscape and its workspaces
- Talking to Claude well, including Styles
- Projects, knowledge and artifacts
- Skills and the skill creator
- Connecting Claude to your world
How Claude actually works
Enough of the machine to stop being surprised by it.
- Inside the machine and the mirror principle
- The API, tool use, and visible thinking
Claude Code
The part almost nobody outside engineering has read, written for operators.
- Memory and files · settings and permissions
- Plan mode · slash commands · skills in depth
- Hooks and hard rules · subagents · MCP in depth
- Worktrees, checkpoints and sessions
Putting it together
The workflows that turn all of it into a way of working.
- Operator workflows end to end
- The operator's mindset
Written for three people in particular
If you recognise yourself here, the manual will pay for itself in the first week you apply it.
The consultant who repeats themselves
You explain the same client context at the start of every session, and you rewrite the same kind of deliverable every week. You finish the manual with a project that already holds the context and a skill that produces the deliverable in your format.
The operator whose tools do not talk
Your real work lives in email, a CRM, a drive and three spreadsheets, and none of it is where you are typing. You finish with connectors in place, so Claude answers from your actual data instead of guessing.
The builder who outgrew the chat box
You are shipping real work and hitting the ceiling of copy and paste. You finish knowing the API, Claude Code, hooks, subagents and MCP well enough to put Claude on files, repositories and jobs that run without you watching.
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