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The dispatch on building with Claude

Tutorials, patterns, and hard-won lessons on Skills, agents, MCP, and prompting. No fluff — just the things that actually move output quality.

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Featuredskills

Building Claude Skills: a complete guide

How to write a Claude Skill — frontmatter, structure, when they fire, the mistakes that kill routing, and 5 worked examples.

Jun 10, 20263 min
claude-codegetting-started

Claude Code for non-developers

You don't need to be an engineer to get enormous value from Claude Code. A practical, jargon-free walkthrough for operators, marketers, and founders.

Jun 8, 20262 min
custom-instructionstutorial

Custom Instructions that survive model updates

Anthropic ships new models constantly. Here's how to write Custom Instructions that keep working — and stay out of the traps that break on every update.

Jun 5, 20262 min
mcpclaude-code

MCP servers, explained for builders

The Model Context Protocol lets Claude talk to your tools and data safely. What MCP is, when to reach for it, and how to wire your first server.

Jun 2, 20262 min
claude-aiprojects

Using Claude Projects without the mess

Projects give Claude persistent context — but most people dump everything in and wonder why answers get worse. A clean system for organizing Projects.

May 28, 20262 min
claude-aiclaude-code

Claude.ai vs Claude Code vs the API

Three ways to use Claude, three very different jobs. A decision guide so you stop using a chat window for work that wants automation — and vice versa.

May 22, 20262 min
promptingtutorial

5 prompt patterns that beat prompt 'tricks'

Forget the magic-phrase lists. These five structural patterns are how professionals get consistent, high-quality output from Claude every time.

May 18, 20262 min