Volume III · The manual

How to actually drive the tool.

A three-rung ladder, ground up. Start Here is the first week with Claude for friends who are not developers. The Manual is the terse lookup for every Claude Code capability, one page each. Advanced is the orchestration cluster, advanced use of the tool itself. Running an actual workforce of agents is its own volume, Factory.

  1. Rung 1Start HereNew to Claude? A hand-held first week for non-developers: Cowork, Claude Code, and building your own AI knowledge system.
  2. Rung 2ManualThe terse-lookup reference: one page per Claude Code capability, organized by topic, reference, setup, and releases. Includes the primitives the principles assume.
  3. Rung 3AdvancedThe orchestration cluster: agent teams, subagents, workflows, loops, hooks, MCP, scheduled and background tasks, plugins. Advanced use of the tool itself.