Claude Operator Track

From first chat to agents, Claude Code, APIs, and MCP — taught for people who ship systems.

Founders, operators, and builders who want Claude to do real work — briefs, code, research, and agentic workflows — without mistaking chat fluency for a production system.

Lessons

1. Meet Claude — capabilities, limits, access — Treat Claude as a strong generalist teammate with no lived context until you give it some.
2. Briefs, prompts, and the iteration loop — Great outputs come from clear jobs, constraints, and ruthless iteration — not magic words.
3. Projects, memory, and durable context — Stop re-explaining your company every chat — put standing instructions where Claude can reuse them.
4. Chat vs Cowork — when files are in the loop — Chat thinks with you; Cowork-style modes work against a folder and connectors with permissions.
5. Claude Code — agentic coding without chaos — Plan, steer, verify — then let the agent loop touch the repo under your rules.
6. Claude Developer Platform & your first API call — Move from ‘ask Claude’ to ‘Claude is a component in software you own’.
7. Agents, tools, and MCP — An agent is a loop with tools — MCP is how you plug in external capabilities cleanly.
8. Large knowledge — RAG vs stuffing the prompt — When docs don’t fit, retrieve the right chunks — don’t drown the model in PDFs.
9. AI fluency, values, and what you own — Close the loop: intentions, principles, boundaries — then decide what to productize.

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