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Before You Touch Anything
What Claude actually is, how it compares to ChatGPT and Gemini, what it costs, and the one mental model that changes everything.
Ten modules · One sitting
Everything you need to actually use Claude well — in two volumes.
Volume IFree · Modules 1–4
The Foundation
Understanding, confidence, and a working setup. Start here — no account needed.
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Claude.ai — Your Starting Point
Your first real conversation, five prompting patterns that cover 90% of use cases, and token-saving habits that compound.
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Claude Code — The Power Tool
Installation, your first session, and why the terminal isn't scary. Claude, but on your computer.
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The Setup That Saves You Tokens
A tested CLAUDE.md, five essential skills, and guidance tailored to your work — student, freelancer, corporate, or small business.
Volume II$9.99 · Modules 5–10
The Full System
The setup we actually use, every day. Memory, automation, agents, custom workflows — set up for you with a single command.
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Your CLAUDE.md, For Real
The comprehensive behavioural config. Preferences, work domain, self-maintenance, and negative instructions that save real tokens.
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Skills & Commands
The two-file system, five tested skills you'll use daily, and how to build your own. Your personal toolkit.
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Hooks — Automation That Runs Itself
Auto-backup, safety gates, and code validation. Things that happen without you doing anything. Zero token cost.
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The Memory System
Persistent context across sessions. Claude remembers your decisions, your feedback, and your project context.
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Agents — Your Team of Specialists
Twenty specialist agents ready when a task needs depth. Claude delegates to the right expert automatically.
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The Full Picture
External tools, domain rules, composed workflows, and the independence to evolve this setup on your own.
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$9.99 one-time. Less than half a month of Claude Pro.
Claude is powerful. Figuring it out alone is slow.
The honest pitch
Most people spend their first few weeks asking Claude the wrong things in the wrong ways — and concluding it's overhyped. It isn't. You just need the map.
This guide is that map. I spent months building a Claude setup that actually works — tested every workflow, wasted the tokens so you won't have to.
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Wasted tokens
Every setup, workflow, and example has been run and verified.
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Sitting to complete
Designed to be read in one focused session — about 3 hours.
4
Free modules to start
Prove it works before you spend anything.
Ronit Chidara
Builder, writer, and whatever else a problem needs
I build AI products for a living and use Claude as my daily co-pilot — for code, writing, research, and everything between. This guide exists because friends kept asking me to “just set it up for them.” I figured I'd write it down properly, the way I'd explain it over chai.
@ronitchidara