I finished all 4 courses. I'm ready to take the exam. But here's the thing — it doesn't open until the rest of you finish yours too. So let me tell you what we're building, and why your courses are the only thing in the way. We're building a real company that puts Claude into other businesses. We get certified, we do the work for real clients, and we climb a partner ladder with Anthropic as we go. Right now we're "registered." That's step one. The people who get certified are the company. That's you. You're not watching me build this. You're in it. Here's how it grows: everyone gets certified → the company climbs → businesses come to us → we hand that paid work to our own people. You. The bigger we get, the more it pays for all of us. And the first ones through win. The first to certify are the founding team. First pick of paid work, first shot at the senior and coach roles. Early isn't a little better here. Early is everything. And none of this replaces what we already do here. I'm still teaching. I'm still showing you what's possible, still building in the open every week. The partnership just adds a real path on top of it. Now the part I'm fired up about. I'm taking the exam first. Then I'm building you a study guide: what to focus on, what to expect, so you walk in ready and pass on the first try. I'm not making you figure it out alone. I'll hand you the map. But I can't take it until you finish your courses. The exam opens for all of us once the group is done. So every course you finish moves the whole team closer. The faster you go, the faster we all do. And here's how I run this: the money this community makes goes right back into it. First perk: I'm covering the exam. It costs $49.99, and I'm paying it for everyone who wants to take it. You do the work, I'll cover the cost. The 4 courses, in order: 1. Intro to Agent Skills 2. Building with Claude API 3. Intro to MCP 4. Claude Code in Action (Names might read a little different in the classroom, just follow the order.)

Most people who quit the terminal in week one quit because they copied a command off the internet, it failed, and they figured they were the problem. They weren't. They were on Windows running a Linux command. The commands are different. That was all it ever was. Here's the one that does the most damage. On Mac or Linux you list files one per line with "ls -1". Run that same thing in PowerShell and you get this: Get-ChildItem: Cannot find path 'D:\Office-Agent\-1' because it does not exist. Read it again. It's complaining about a folder you never typed. PowerShell took the "-1" and read it as the name of the place you wanted to look in. Nothing in that message tells you the flag was the problem, so you sit there staring at a path that doesn't exist wondering what you broke. The ones that catch people most often: ls -1 -> Get-ChildItem -Name ls -la -> Get-ChildItem -Force cat file -> Get-Content file head -n 10 file -> Get-Content file -TotalCount 10 tail -n 10 file -> Get-Content file -Tail 10 tail -f file -> Get-Content file -Wait grep "error" app.log -> Select-String -Path app.log -Pattern "error" find . -name "*.txt" -> Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Filter *.txt which git -> (Get-Command git).Source touch a.txt -> New-Item -ItemType File a.txt mkdir -p a/b -> New-Item -ItemType Directory -Force a/b rm -rf old/ -> Remove-Item -Recurse -Force old export KEY=abc -> $env:KEY = "abc" echo $PATH -> $env:PATH cmd 2>/dev/null -> cmd 2>$null One more worth knowing. The && that chains two commands together works in PowerShell 7 and up, but it's a syntax error on the older Windows PowerShell 5.1 that ships with Windows. Check yours with $PSVersionTable.PSVersion. If it starts with a 5, install PowerShell 7. It sits alongside the old one, it doesn't replace it. The rule that saves you the most time: when something fails, read the error before you retype anything. "The term X is not recognized" means the command doesn't exist on Windows at all. "A parameter cannot be found" means the command is right and the flag is wrong. Those two sentences cover most of what goes wrong in your first month.

I just dropped a new Claude Code skill in The Armory that I used to make this exact video. You give it a finished voiceover, and it helps build the full vertical explainer around it: - Storyboarded scenes - Word-timed captions - Custom sound effects - Audio mixing - Chunked Remotion rendering - Final verification sheets This is not a prompt that spits out a random slideshow. It is the actual workflow, scripts, design system, and working source files behind the finished video. Download it from The Armory, install it in your Claude Code skills folder, and use the included project as a working example.

If you have tried the new skill out let me know how it’s been working out for you in the comments!

I just dropped the first resource in the new Skills and Prompts section of the classroom. That section is where I’m putting the files and prompts I actually use, ready to copy. The first one is a prompt that builds a skill. You paste it into Claude, it interviews you with ten questions, and it hands back a SKILL.md file. A rulebook any AI has to follow when it writes for you. Your banned phrases, your rhythm, your real stories, and a hard rule against inventing anything you didn’t give it. My own posts run through the file this exact prompt built. It’s in the classroom for paying members. More is coming to that section. It’s in the classroom section. This space is exclusive to the paying members.