Guides
Step-by-step tutorials on building with Claude Code, AI agents, content automation, and everything I post about.

How to collect invoices from email and match them to your credit card statement
A guide to installing Invoice Pack, connecting Gmail, and running it locally to separate matches, documents to review, and missing invoices.

The skill kit for the three build stages with Claude Code
The skills and prompts I use to plan before writing code, execute without losing direction, and then map and check what actually got built.

Replace ManyChat With Claude Code and Cut the Monthly Bill
ManyChat charges per contact, so the bill grows with your audience. The same comment-to-DM automation, built from one signup and five Claude Code prompts.

My design reference stack for working with Claude Code
Seven reference sources for flows and product screens, plus a prompt that turns inspiration into design instructions you can actually check.

The Claude Code context map
One command shows what actually takes up the context window: conversation, memory, skills and MCP tools. Here is how to read the map and choose what to shorten, clean up or move to a separate agent.

Claude Code Remote Control, the Complete Guide
Continue a local Claude Code session from your phone: setup, connection, safe usage, and troubleshooting, step by step with screenshots.

The disk rescue prompt
Out of space on your computer and deleting files does not help? A ready prompt for Claude Code that scans your machine, finds a runaway git repo eating your disk, and fixes it only with your approval.

9 checks for your instructions file
Anthropic deleted more than 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for the new models, with no drop in code test results. Nine checks that go through your CLAUDE.md and tell you what to delete, what to keep, and what to move into a skill.

Secrets checklist for agents
What your agent is allowed to see, what it should never see, and how to set it up right: the 1Password for Claude pattern, rules for working agents, and a compact checklist to copy.

The architecture map of Claude Cowork
Cowork looks like a chat, but it's built like an agent platform: an isolated Linux machine, a planner that breaks down tasks, and cloud sessions that keep running while your laptop is closed. The full map, plus three workflows that make use of it.

The 5-level map: where you stand on the Claude Code creator's ladder
The ladder from Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code: 5 levels of agent adoption, a 60-second self-check to find your level, and the one move that takes you up a level.

Claude Desktop got Hebrew. No announcement.
Mac version 1.24012.1 added Hebrew and Arabic files for the first time. I checked it on my Mac: Hebrew now displays correctly, right to left. Here's how to update, how to verify it, and what to do separately in VS Code.

A map of the four leaks in comment-to-DM automation
How to check where a comment-to-guide funnel actually loses people. Perfect entry does not mean delivery. Four leak points and how to close each one.

The map of 11 agents and two gates
The map of a content pipeline with 11 agents and two control gates: seven creators, two gates, a manager and a publisher, and a human eye at the end. How the work hands off between agents and where it stops.

4 steps to an agent that reviews your code before it merges
A review agent that reads your diff, flags security weaknesses and stops the merge automatically on a serious finding. One skill, one gate on your code.

The checklist to protect your agent from prompt injection
5 checks that separate data from instructions inside a tool-connected agent, with the two most important attacks CrowdStrike published and concrete mitigation.

The operator map for Claude Cowork
What Claude Cowork is, how an agent that runs in the background and carries over between your computer and phone changes the shape of work, when to use it, and what matters about the beta.

The checklist after every deploy: check the live URL
A short checklist to run after every deploy: open the production URL itself and go route by route, because a green build does not prove production is alive.

From Chat to System: Getting Started with Claude Code and Codex
Most people use Claude Code and Codex like a chatbot and miss the power. The move from a recommendation system to a worker system in 5 steps: install, connect tools, set limits, whole tasks, and daily improvement.

An Agent That Turns Customer Feedback Into Product Improvements
Let an agent gather scattered customer feedback, cluster it into themes, prioritize by pain, and propose concrete fixes. Includes a ready prompt and a weekly loop.

Let Claude Code Watch Videos with /watch
Install and use /watch for frames, captions, timestamped transcripts, and Whisper fallback when captions are unavailable.

A plugin and skill list for a working agent
A starter set for an agent that doesn't improvise: Superpowers, Caveman, Ponytail, Frontend Design, Design Review and Fullstack Eval.

Prompts for splitting work with Fable 5
A set of prompts that split work between Fable 5, a reading agent, a writing agent, a review agent and a progress file.

A verification checklist for agents
A short checklist that defines completion evidence before you let an agent work alone: tests, build, screenshot, and a review agent.

The Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 work loop
Splitting the work between the strong model and the fast model: planning, execution, review and fixing, with defined subagents and ready prompts for every stage.

Model map for Claude Code
When to start with Sonnet and when to open Opus in Claude Code, without burning a strong model on grunt work and without letting a fast model decide alone.

A work map for an agent that does not improvise
A short document that defines role, boundaries, permissions, evidence and a stop line before you let an agent work.

A basic Skill template
A short structure that turns an action that repeats twice into a workflow an agent can run again.

A map for splitting work across subagents
When to open a subagent, what to give it, and what to return to the main conversation without polluting the context.

Check permissions before you connect an MCP
A short checklist that separates read, propose, write and outbound action before an agent touches a real system.

A checklist of processes worth teaching Codex
How to pick a recurring process, clean it up, add variable inputs, and turn it into a procedure you can repeat.

A memory template for an agent
A structure that separates stable memory from memory that goes stale, with source, date, scope and a refresh check.

A work contract for the CLAUDE.md file
A short structure that gives the agent boundaries, checks, stop conditions and a finish line before it touches the project.

A stack map for agent work
How to split work between Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, subagents, and the human who owns product decisions.

MemPalace - Milla Jovovich's AI Memory System
Installation and usage guide for MemPalace, an open-source AI memory system that organizes memories like rooms in a palace. MCP setup, conversation mining, and tips.

Connect Meta Ads to Claude Code - Complete Guide
Step-by-step guide to connect your Meta Ads account to Claude Code via MCP Server. Pull campaign data, analyze performance, and get recommendations.

Claude Code Memory Management - The Complete Guide
How to manage CLAUDE.md, MEMORY.md, rules, skills and MCPs in Claude Code. A layered guide with an automated audit prompt for your setup.

How to Run 30 Agents That Research While You Sleep
Complete tutorial for building an automated knowledge map on any topic using parallel AI agents and D3 visualization.

A gate on the merge path before it goes fully automatic
Branch protection, required review and CI checks: the gate you need before letting background agents open a PR on their own.

My rule for routing between a cheap model and an expensive one
Default to a cheap workhorse model, move up to an expensive one only for architecture, cross-system judgment, deep debugging and final review.

The 5 rungs I used to build an agent that runs my campaigns
How you build authority for an agent one rung at a time: a small task, a limited action, repetition, a skill, and only then a scheduled agent.

How to read your Claude Code usage bill
Breaking down the /usage command by skill, subagent, plugin and MCP server, so you know what's burning through your quota before it runs out.

How to roll out a code agent to your team without burning trust
Five steps to roll out a code agent to the whole team, without burning the trust of developers who worry about being replaced or about broken code.

The 3 questions that set a baseline before you turn on an agent
A short template for measuring time, failure rate and human hours before you turn an autonomous agent loose on an existing process.

3 Claude Code updates this week and how to use them
A weekly radar that filters out the noise: Claude in Chrome, an automatic MCP connection fix, and a new dataviz skill.

Loop Operator Kit for Claude Code
Seven work templates that stop a loop from running forever, dying with the laptop, picking the wrong model, touching production, or declaring done too early.