Working with Claude

A practical, free course on getting trustworthy work out of Claude — not just faster work. The companion to the Village course on judgment: that one teaches which work to give an agent; this one teaches how to get reliable results, keep custody of your data, and stay accountable.

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PrimerStart here — the 5-minute primer

Tier 1 · Foundations

1.1Claude vs Claude Code 1.2Prompting is delegation, not magic words 1.3Projects and Artifacts — organising real work 1.4Stop Claude flattering you, caving, and making things up 1.5What to keep out of Claude

Tier 2 · Practitioner

2.1Prompting patterns for your work 2.2The verification habit — telling when Claude is wrong 2.3Standing instructions for your role 2.4Managing a conversation

Tier 3 · Power

3.1Claude's agentic surface — tools and computer use 3.2Connecting Claude to your systems (MCP) 3.3Claude alongside your other tools 3.4Scheduled and automated work

Tier 4 · Frontier

4.1Claude Code — what it is, and when you would graduate to it 4.2Capability is not agency 4.3Build your own guardrails 4.4Legal and accountability — what you actually own 4.5Custody — when to move to AI you control

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