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Claude Field Guide.

From zero to power user — every Claude skill that matters, organized by the order you actually learn them.

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How to use this: tap any skill card to see what it is, when to use it, and the exact way to invoke it. Start at Stage 1 if you're new. Jump to Stage 6 if you already use Claude daily and want to level up. The 10 stages stack — each one builds on the ones before it.

01

The Basics.

What Claude is — and the four different ways you use it. Chat, Code, Cowork, Design. Most people only know one of them. Most people stay stuck.

Goal: Pick the right surface for the job.
02

Dispatch.

Stop watching Claude work. Hand off a task, walk away, come back to the finished thing. The single biggest mindset shift between "I use AI" and "AI works for me."

Goal: Claude works while you don't.
03

Projects.

A Project is the container that holds your brain context, brand voice, and knowledge files in one place. Set up right, every chat inside it already knows everything about you.

Goal: Claude opens already knowing your business.
04

Prompting.

Get useful output every time. The difference between "Claude wrote me garbage again" and "Claude wrote it like a senior teammate would." These are the fundamentals.

Goal: Reliable output from any prompt.
05

Artifacts.

Stop copying responses into Google Docs. Claude builds real artifacts you keep — documents, code, dashboards, calculators, full HTML pages, diagrams. Every type below is one you'll use.

Goal: Output you ship from, not copy from.
06

Skills.

A Skill is a packaged, reusable capability Claude loads when relevant. Built-ins handle PDFs, Word docs, slides, spreadsheets. Custom Skills do whatever you build them to do.

Goal: A personal Skill library.
07

Plugins.

Plugins bundle Skills, agents, slash commands, and MCP servers into installable packages. The marketplace where Claude actually gets more capable.

Goal: Install power, don't rebuild it.
08

Connectors.

Wire Claude into your actual stack. Google Drive, Gmail, Notion, Slack, GitHub, your CRM. Claude reads + writes to real systems instead of living in a separate window.

Goal: Claude lives where your work lives.
09

Workflows.

Multi-step processes Claude runs end-to-end. Skills are utilities; workflows are operational systems — input → process → deliverable. The shape of every weekly task you stop doing.

Goal: Operations that run themselves.
10

Automation.

From "I run Claude" to "Claude runs without me." Scheduled tasks, autonomous jobs, alerts, recurring deliverables — Claude as a system that does work while you sleep.

Goal: Work happens without you.
11

Claude Code.

Claude in the terminal — writing and editing files directly on your machine. You don't need to be a developer to use it, but learning it 10× what you can ship.

Goal: Claude touches files, not just chats.
12

Power User.

The 10% moves. Custom agents, model routing, evals, cost optimization, building your own MCP. Where Claude stops being a tool and becomes your operating system.

Goal: You teach others.
A

Claude commands.

The slash commands that work across Claude products. Type them in any chat. Tap a card for what each one does and when to use it.

B

Prompt starters.

Ten openings that consistently get high-quality output. Paste, fill in the brackets, run.

C

Beginner mistakes.

The ten things that keep Claude users stuck at "kind of useful." Recognize one in yourself, fix it, level up.

D

Organization + maintenance.

Once your Claude stack is built, it needs upkeep. These are the ten habits that keep it useful month after month — not abandoned in 60 days.

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