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Every Claude 2.0 Concept Explained for Normal People — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Okay, so over the last 12 weeks,
  2. 0:01Anthropic has shipped three new models,
  3. 0:03put docs, slides, and designs inside
  4. 0:06every single chat, launched dashboards
  5. 0:08and animated explainers, released a
  6. 0:09brand new agent app called Duet, and the
  7. 0:11$200 plan doesn't even have a 5-hour
  8. 0:14limit anymore. And people are kind of
  9. 0:16calling this Claude 2.0, which is just
  10. 0:18obviously a nickname, not a new model.
  11. 0:19And if you feel a little bit lost right
  12. 0:21now, that's probably pretty normal. So
  13. 0:22in this video, I'm going to break down
  14. 0:23every Claude concept that you need to
  15. 0:25understand, 25 of them in plain English,
  16. 0:27split across five parts. And you don't
  17. 0:30need to be technical at all or know how
  18. 0:31to code for any of it. So let's get
  19. 0:33right into it. Okay, so part one is the
  20. 0:35brain, which is basically what Claude is
  21. 0:37actually running on. And concept number
  22. 0:39one is AI models. Claude isn't just one
  23. 0:42AI. It's a family of models. And right
  24. 0:44now, there are three main models. Haiku
  25. 0:47is the small one, so it's cheapest and
  26. 0:49fastest. Sonnet is kind of the everyday
  27. 0:51workhorse. And Opus is the one that you
  28. 0:53hand the big, long, messy jobs to. And
  29. 0:55right now, they're all kind of called
  30. 0:575.5 because that's the most recent
  31. 0:59version, but in the future, we'll see
  32. 1:00six and we will see seven and eight.
  33. 1:03Now, we also do have another model
  34. 1:04that's even more intelligent and it's
  35. 1:06called Fable, but for right now, you can
  36. 1:08say that the majority of work, even Opus
  37. 1:10is overkill. So like Sonnet 5.5, Opus
  38. 1:125.5, very, very good models. But the way
  39. 1:14I think about them is like a team. You
  40. 1:16wouldn't have your most senior person
  41. 1:18answering every quick email, and you
  42. 1:20wouldn't hand the whole project to your
  43. 1:21newest hire. Now, I actually tested
  44. 1:23Sonnet against Opus on seven real
  45. 1:24workflows, and Sonnet won the stuff with
  46. 1:27really clear instructions like a
  47. 1:28resource guide where I could finish it
  48. 1:30in about half the time and usually
  49. 1:32cheaper than Opus. But Opus won the
  50. 1:34tasks when the goal was vague, like
  51. 1:36building out a 90-day plan. And keep in
  52. 1:37mind, on the free plan, you get Sonnet
  53. 1:39and Haiku, but not Opus. Now, the other
  54. 1:41one that I talked about, like I said,
  55. 1:43Fable. Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's top-tier
  56. 1:46model. It's the one that the government
  57. 1:48actually took away when they first
  58. 1:49dropped Fable 5
  59. 1:50because it was too powerful. And they
  60. 1:52say that it's built for demanding
  61. 1:53reasoning and really, really long tasks
  62. 1:55where Claude works on its own. And it's
  63. 1:57also very expensive. If you pay per use,
  64. 2:00it costs two and a half times what Opus
  65. 2:02does. And Anthropic's own release notes
  66. 2:04say that Opus 5.5 performs near fable
  67. 2:06level on most work. So for most of our
  68. 2:09use cases, Opus is going to be plenty of
  69. 2:11power. Now on Max and Ultra plans, which
  70. 2:13is the subscriptions that you get on,
  71. 2:14you know, 20 bucks a month, 100 bucks a
  72. 2:16month, or 200 bucks a month, Fable can
  73. 2:18use up to half of your weekly limit. And
  74. 2:20on Pro, you pay for it with usage
  75. 2:22credits. There's also a command called
  76. 2:24slash advisor that lets Claude check in
  77. 2:26with a stronger model like Fable at key
  78. 2:28moments during a task. So you get some
  79. 2:30of the brain power without running the
  80. 2:31entire job on
  81. 2:33Fable. All right, so concept number
  82. 2:35three now is tokens and the context
  83. 2:36window. A token is basically a chunk of
  84. 2:39word and it's how everything gets
  85. 2:40measured for AI models, both what you
  86. 2:42pay and how fast you hit your limits,
  87. 2:44whether that be the session limits or
  88. 2:46the weekly limits. And then the context
  89. 2:48window is how many tokens Claude can
  90. 2:50hold in its head at one time. Every
  91. 2:52current model inside of Claude Code has
  92. 2:54a 1 million token window, which
  93. 2:56Anthropic says is roughly 555,000 words.
  94. 2:59So like a whole stack of novels at once.
  95. 3:01And most of your tokens go to reading,
  96. 3:03not writing. When I measured seven of my
  97. 3:05own tasks, Claude read about 160 million
  98. 3:08tokens and only wrote about 800,000. So
  99. 3:11for every token it writes, it might be
  100. 3:12reading about 200, which is why the
  101. 3:14stuff you load in, like your files and
  102. 3:16your instructions, those matter so much
  103. 3:18more than how long your prompt is. Okay,
  104. 3:21now number four, effort levels. Effort
  105. 3:23is how hard Claude has to think or how
  106. 3:25hard Claude does think before it
  107. 3:27answers. And the levels that you get to
  108. 3:28choose from are low, medium, high, extra
  109. 3:31high, and max. Now on the 5.5 models,
  110. 3:33the default is medium. And you can
  111. 3:35change it by either typing slash effort
  112. 3:38or by in the bottom right in the desktop
  113. 3:39app just choosing the effort level. But
  114. 3:42more effort isn't always better. I
  115. 3:44actually ran an experiment where I gave
  116. 3:45Opus 5.5 the exact same prompt at every
  117. 3:48single effort level. Low finished in
  118. 3:50about 17 minutes for under $4 and it was
  119. 3:52super glitchy. Extra high was the winner
  120. 3:54at an hour and a half of run, but it
  121. 3:56cost about $26. And Max in this case
  122. 3:59took two and a half hours, cost 50
  123. 4:01bucks, and was not really that good. It
  124. 4:03was still buggy. So in Tropics own Docs
  125. 4:05even say that max is prone to
  126. 4:07overthinking. So you don't need to give
  127. 4:09it so much power. So what I do myself is
  128. 4:12I keep medium as my everyday setting,
  129. 4:14and I only bump it up for really hard
  130. 4:16stuff like video editing. I'll always
  131. 4:18throw it on extra high. But if you're
  132. 4:19creating Docs and you're doing general
  133. 4:21knowledge work, you could even just use
  134. 4:22Sonic 5.5 on medium for most things,
  135. 4:24especially when you combine that with
  136. 4:25skills, which we'll talk about later.
  137. 4:27Now there is also something called Ultra
  138. 4:28Code, which isn't really a level. It's
  139. 4:30more of a setting where Claude plans out
  140. 4:31the whole workflow for each big task
  141. 4:33before it starts. So that is something
  142. 4:35that you can pull another lever as well.
  143. 4:37But anyways, number five is about usage
  144. 4:38limits and plans. So Claude has two
  145. 4:41limits running at the same time, a
  146. 4:425-hour session limit and a weekly limit,
  147. 4:45and they are shared. So your chats in
  148. 4:46the Claude app and your work in Claude
  149. 4:48Code all pull from that same bucket. So
  150. 4:50for plans, free is $0 a month, Pro is
  151. 4:52$20 a month, Max is $100 for five times
  152. 4:55Pro's usage, and then the $200 plan is
  153. 4:57now called Ultra. And Ultra gets you 10
  154. 5:00times Pro's weekly usage. And for
  155. 5:03verified Ultra accounts, there's no
  156. 5:04longer going to be a 5-hour limit, which
  157. 5:06is pretty awesome. Max and Ultra also
  158. 5:08come with $100 and $200 a month in API
  159. 5:11credits as well, which are for building
  160. 5:12your own apps on top of Claude so they
  161. 5:14don't work inside the Claude Code app.
  162. 5:17It's more about like programmatic
  163. 5:18automations that can sort of like run
  164. 5:20more in the background. Now if you want
  165. 5:21to see where you're at, you can just
  166. 5:22type /usage or you can click on the
  167. 5:24little circle in the bottom right of the
  168. 5:25desktop app, and a lot of what's in this
  169. 5:27video depends on your plan. So if you
  170. 5:29watch a video and you don't see a
  171. 5:30particular feature, then maybe it's
  172. 5:32because of the plan you're on or maybe
  173. 5:34you need to be on a weight list or
  174. 5:35something like that. And I put together
  175. 5:36a free cheat sheet with all 25 of these
  176. 5:38concepts and exactly which plan gets
  177. 5:40what, and that is inside my free school
  178. 5:42community, which is linked down in the
  179. 5:43description. So anyways, that's what
  180. 5:45Claude runs on. But where do you
  181. 5:47actually use it now that the app has
  182. 5:48three different tabs? [music] So number
  183. 5:50six is chat. Chat is the Claude that
  184. 5:52most people already know where you just
  185. 5:54type a message and you get an answer
  186. 5:55back. But since September 16th, chat can
  187. 5:58do a lot more than just talk. You can
  188. 5:59make Docs, slides, and designs right
  189. 6:01inside any conversation, and even the
  190. 6:03free plan gets web search, memory,
  191. 6:05connectors, and artifacts. And I'll
  192. 6:07explain all those things in a little
  193. 6:08bit. So chat is where you could go to,
  194. 6:10you know, kind of do a Google search or
  195. 6:11think things through really quickly or
  196. 6:13make some quick drafts. But number seven
  197. 6:16is code. So Claude code. The code tab in
  198. 6:18the desktop app is Claude code. And I
  199. 6:21know the name scares a lot of people
  200. 6:22off, but trust me, it's not scary at
  201. 6:23all. Claude code works inside a folder
  202. 6:25on your computer. So it can read your
  203. 6:27local files. It can create new ones,
  204. 6:29edit them, move them around. It can run
  205. 6:31commands. So it's less of a chatbot and
  206. 6:33more of an assistant that actually does
  207. 6:34the work. And it's not just for
  208. 6:36developers. I promise you. I don't come
  209. 6:37from a coding background, and pretty
  210. 6:38much my entire business runs out of
  211. 6:40Claude code out of one folder. Everyone
  212. 6:42on my team, no one's a formal coder, but
  213. 6:44everyone uses Claude code, and that's
  214. 6:45how we're able to move so much faster.
  215. 6:47It's literally like having a best friend
  216. 6:49that is the world's best coder that
  217. 6:51talks to you like a normal person, and
  218. 6:52you can ask it to do things like a
  219. 6:53normal person. It's also how I edit all
  220. 6:55my videos, like the one that I'm you're
  221. 6:57watching right now. I recorded it, I
  222. 6:58handed Claude the footage, and it helped
  223. 7:00me kind of cut out things and get the
  224. 7:02B-roll and throw it all together. Claude
  225. 7:03code comes with Pro and up when we talk
  226. 7:06about subscriptions. Now number eight,
  227. 7:08Cowork. Anthropic literally describes
  228. 7:10Cowork as Claude code for the rest of
  229. 7:12your work, meaning all the stuff that
  230. 7:13isn't coding. You can give it a goal, it
  231. 7:15can work across your files and your
  232. 7:16tools, and you can come back to finished
  233. 7:18work that you can just review. And their
  234. 7:19examples are things like reviewing a
  235. 7:21whole folder of contracts against a
  236. 7:22playbook or building a spreadsheet that
  237. 7:24reconciles a bunch of, you know,
  238. 7:26regional exports or reports or something
  239. 7:27like that. But honestly, the way I feel
  240. 7:29about it is why learn Cowork if
  241. 7:31eventually you might need the power of
  242. 7:32code? So I would just recommend that
  243. 7:33you're learning Claude code, and my
  244. 7:35channel has tons of great videos. In
  245. 7:37fact, I'll tag a six-hour Claude code
  246. 7:38course for non-coders, for regular
  247. 7:40people right up here so that you guys
  248. 7:42can check that out after this video if
  249. 7:43you need to. All right, so moving on to
  250. 7:44number nine, sessions. Every
  251. 7:47conversation in the Claude code tab is a
  252. 7:48session with its own history and its own
  253. 7:51folder. And Anthropic rebuilt the
  254. 7:52desktop app around running a bunch of
  255. 7:54sessions at the same time. So you can
  256. 7:56have one session doing research, another
  257. 7:57one writing, and another one building
  258. 7:59all side by side. It's super super
  259. 8:01slick. You can also hit command N for a
  260. 8:03new session, and you can open two of
  261. 8:04them next to each each in split view.
  262. 8:06Claude can even message and manage your
  263. 8:08other sessions for you. It's really
  264. 8:09really cool. I've had days with 18 or 20
  265. 8:12or 30 of these running in pairs just to
  266. 8:14test models against each other and
  267. 8:16actually built a little mod that warns
  268. 8:18me when two sessions are about to edit
  269. 8:19the same file. And with remote control,
  270. 8:22your computer shows up on your phone so
  271. 8:23you can check in on sessions from
  272. 8:25literally anywhere if you have your
  273. 8:26phone. Now number 10 is side chats.
  274. 8:29Let's say you're halfway through a big
  275. 8:30task and you want to ask a question
  276. 8:32without derailing that session. You can
  277. 8:34hit command semicolon or you can type /
  278. 8:37b t w for / by the way and you can get a
  279. 8:39side chat and you can see everything in
  280. 8:41your session but nothing that you say
  281. 8:43there gets added back into that main
  282. 8:44conversation which is super nice. Just
  283. 8:46keep in mind here that in the desktop
  284. 8:47app, it doesn't save your side chats so
  285. 8:49if you close one from the app, it'll be
  286. 8:51gone. But that brings us on to number 11
  287. 8:53which is Claude Duet which is
  288. 8:55Anthropic's brand new agent app. You
  289. 8:57message it the way you'd message a
  290. 8:58person by typing or talking and it does
  291. 9:00things in the apps that you've connected
  292. 9:02and it's super super proactive. It's
  293. 9:04basically it's Anthropic's response to
  294. 9:06you know Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.
  295. 9:09But every morning it can do things like
  296. 9:10scan your email and your calendar. It
  297. 9:12can flag what needs your attention and
  298. 9:13it can start drafting replies for you to
  299. 9:14review right away. And throughout the
  300. 9:16day, it follows up on threads that have
  301. 9:18gone quiet. It's designed to ask you
  302. 9:20before it sends a message or makes any
  303. 9:22sort of payment or signs a document or
  304. 9:24deletes anything. And right now it's in
  305. 9:25research preview with a wait list US
  306. 9:27only on Pro Max and Ultra plans. So
  307. 9:31that's part two. That's where you use
  308. 9:33Claude. Now let's talk about what it can
  309. 9:35actually make for you. Okay, so number
  310. 9:3712 here is artifacts. [music]
  311. 9:39An artifact is anything that Claude
  312. 9:40makes for you that opens up right beside
  313. 9:42the chat like a document, a deck, a
  314. 9:43design, a dashboard, or a small
  315. 9:45interactive tool, really whatever you
  316. 9:46want it to be. And they start out
  317. 9:48private so nobody sees them unless you
  318. 9:50actually share them. And I actually made
  319. 9:51our October All Hands deck for my team
  320. 9:53as an artifact but I've also made like
  321. 9:56internal apps and actual like dashboards
  322. 9:58that I want to come back to and revisit.
  323. 9:59I've made those artifacts as well. I've
  324. 10:01even made myself an artifact when I was
  325. 10:02planning a trip with my friends and I
  326. 10:04could send it to them as well. So very
  327. 10:06very cool stuff. Now number 13 is kind
  328. 10:08of like 13 14 15 but we're just going to
  329. 10:10call it 13. And this is docs, slides,
  330. 10:12and design, which are the three most
  331. 10:14common types of artifact. So docs are
  332. 10:16documents, slides are presentations, and
  333. 10:18design is for visual stuff like landing
  334. 10:20pages and, you know, app mockups or
  335. 10:22something like that. As of October 8th,
  336. 10:24all three of these are out of beta and
  337. 10:26on every single plan, including free.
  338. 10:28And it topic says that people have
  339. 10:29already made over 45 million docs,
  340. 10:31decks, and designs. So clearly people
  341. 10:33are loving this feature. Now I did do a
  342. 10:35full two-hour course on Claude Design
  343. 10:36back in April, and the big change since
  344. 10:38then is that you don't have to go
  345. 10:39anywhere else to use it. It used to be a
  346. 10:41separate app, but now design lives right
  347. 10:43inside your chats. And the old
  348. 10:44standalone site, claude.ai/design,
  349. 10:47is going to be closing in December of
  350. 10:49this year. So if you've got a bunch of
  351. 10:50workflows over there, just make sure
  352. 10:51you're kind of like aware of that or
  353. 10:53you're going to think that they have
  354. 10:54disappeared. But anyways, that brings us
  355. 10:55on to number 14, which is dashboards.
  356. 10:58You ask a question about your business
  357. 10:59in plain English, and Claude pulls the
  358. 11:01answer from your data. It builds a
  359. 11:02dashboard, and it keeps it updated as
  360. 11:04the data changes. It connects to things
  361. 11:06like BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks,
  362. 11:08and Salesforce, and you can click on any
  363. 11:10number to see the exact query behind it.
  364. 11:12So you're not just trusting a chart that
  365. 11:14you can't check. Now dashboards right
  366. 11:15now are in beta on the paid plan, so if
  367. 11:17you don't see it, that's probably why.
  368. 11:19But don't stress, everything eventually
  369. 11:20rolls out to everybody, except for
  370. 11:22Mythos. We still haven't gotten that.
  371. 11:23But anyway, number 15 is motion. Motion
  372. 11:26turns a prompt into a short animated
  373. 11:28explainer that plays like a video, and
  374. 11:30then you can download it as an MP4. So
  375. 11:32it's basically Claude native video
  376. 11:34editing. Now I myself typically use
  377. 11:36Hyper Frames, which is a free open
  378. 11:37source tool for video editing, but all
  379. 11:39of this is getting really, really good.
  380. 11:40And the key about this AI video editing
  381. 11:42is that it's not using a video
  382. 11:43generation model. The animation is
  383. 11:45actually built with code, so there's no
  384. 11:46AI generated footage or fake people in
  385. 11:48it. It's in beta right now on Team and
  386. 11:50Enterprise right now, but like I said,
  387. 11:52it will come out to everybody. And this
  388. 11:53is pretty much the same idea that I use
  389. 11:55for my own videos because a lot of the
  390. 11:56motion graphics on my channel are built
  391. 11:58with code, with Claude code as well,
  392. 12:00which is why they're so easy to change
  393. 12:01because I can change the color of
  394. 12:02something or the size of something
  395. 12:04without having to re-render the entire
  396. 12:06like if it was an AI generated video. So
  397. 12:08Claude can do a ton of stuff, but it's
  398. 12:11only as good as what it about you, which
  399. 12:13is part four. [music] So, number 16 is
  400. 12:16memory. Every new conversation starts
  401. 12:18completely fresh. Like when you shoot a
  402. 12:20new message off to Claude, it basically
  403. 12:21wakes up blind and it has to read things
  404. 12:24in your project in order to know who you
  405. 12:25are. And memory is how Claude carries
  406. 12:27things over from one session to the next
  407. 12:29or from one day to the next. Now, in the
  408. 12:31Claude app, memory is on every single
  409. 12:33plan, even free. And in Claude Code,
  410. 12:35there's something called auto memory
  411. 12:37where Claude writes its own notes based
  412. 12:39on your corrections and preferences and
  413. 12:41then it reads them at the start of every
  414. 12:42session. So, literally the more you use
  415. 12:44Claude Code, the smarter it gets about
  416. 12:46you and how you like to work. Now, I've
  417. 12:47got over 150 of those notes right now
  418. 12:50inside of my projects. One of them
  419. 12:52literally just says that Grokbot is
  420. 12:53spelled with a space because I corrected
  421. 12:55it enough times because it kept spelling
  422. 12:57Grokbot without a space. So, auto memory
  423. 12:59is in fact automatic. Now, number 17 is
  424. 13:02the Claude.md.
  425. 13:04So, if memory is what Claude writes
  426. 13:05down, Claude.md is what you write down.
  427. 13:08It's just a text file with your
  428. 13:09instructions and your rules and Claude
  429. 13:11loads it at the start of every session.
  430. 13:13So, mine basically starts with, hey, you
  431. 13:14are Nate Herks, AI operating system.
  432. 13:16Your job is to save him time, blah blah
  433. 13:18blah. And then it's basically just a map
  434. 13:20of where everything in my business
  435. 13:21lives. So, if you want business
  436. 13:23contacts, you go to this folder. If you
  437. 13:24want, you know, brand assets, you go to
  438. 13:26this folder. And it's just a routing map
  439. 13:27of where I can find all my stuff. Now,
  440. 13:29one quick tip is that you want to keep
  441. 13:31this lean because it loads every single
  442. 13:33time. Remember how I said every time you
  443. 13:34shoot off a message to Claude, it wakes
  444. 13:35up fresh? It will read that Claude.md
  445. 13:37every time. So, the recommendation is
  446. 13:39really to keep that within 200 lines.
  447. 13:42Now, number 18 is probably my favorite
  448. 13:43Claude Code feature ever and that is
  449. 13:45skills. A skill is a saved set of
  450. 13:48instructions for one specific job
  451. 13:50written in a file called skill.md. And
  452. 13:52whenever you hear this .md thing, that
  453. 13:54just means markdown file. And markdown
  454. 13:56is just a type of computer language
  455. 13:58that's very very human readable. It's
  456. 14:00super easy to read, but it just gives
  457. 14:01computer more structure when it's
  458. 14:03reading something. So, you've got like,
  459. 14:04you know, section headers and bullet
  460. 14:05points and different sorts of like like
  461. 14:07bold, things like that. So, Claude will
  462. 14:09basically use a relevant skill whenever
  463. 14:12it identifies that it needs to or you
  464. 14:14can call one yourself by typing a slash
  465. 14:17and then the skills name. And skills are
  466. 14:18super, super cheap to keep around
  467. 14:20because Claude only sees a short
  468. 14:21description of each skill until it
  469. 14:23actually needs it. Now I myself have
  470. 14:25over 100 skills and the way that most of
  471. 14:27them get made is really, really simple.
  472. 14:29If I've typed the same request over and
  473. 14:31over, turn it into a skill. I typed
  474. 14:33process this YouTube video into the
  475. 14:35Google Sheet master database and the
  476. 14:37wiki. I've done that probably 15 times
  477. 14:39and then I realized, oh, why don't I
  478. 14:40just turn this into a skill? And now I
  479. 14:41have one called process video. And a
  480. 14:43skill can be anything. It can literally
  481. 14:44be two prompts or it could be an entire
  482. 14:46workflow that runs over the course of an
  483. 14:48hour. It's just when you turn some sort
  484. 14:49of process that already exists into a
  485. 14:53reference or an instruction guide that
  486. 14:54Claude can then follow for you. So if
  487. 14:56you've ever done something twice, turn
  488. 14:58it into a skill. If you ever have
  489. 14:59deliverables that you need to create,
  490. 15:01turn that into a skill. For example,
  491. 15:02once I make a YouTube video, what I do
  492. 15:04is I run my process video skill and then
  493. 15:06I run my LinkedIn creation skill and
  494. 15:07then I run my X article skill and then I
  495. 15:09run my upload skill and then I run my
  496. 15:12packaging skills. So I've turned all of
  497. 15:14these things into simple slash commands
  498. 15:15that I can ask Claude for instead of
  499. 15:17having to re-explain myself. So start
  500. 15:19building as many skills as you can. And
  501. 15:21that brings us on to number 19 which is
  502. 15:23connectors. [music]
  503. 15:24Connectors plug Claude or connect Claude
  504. 15:26into the apps that you already use like
  505. 15:27Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack,
  506. 15:29ClickUp, whatever you need. So it can
  507. 15:32actually read and do things in there
  508. 15:33with hands rather than just having you
  509. 15:35copy and paste everything back and
  510. 15:36forth. It's really the big difference
  511. 15:38between an agent and just a chatbot. Now
  512. 15:40under the hood, a lot of these run on
  513. 15:42something called MCP which stands for
  514. 15:44model context protocol. You don't
  515. 15:46really, really need to know what that
  516. 15:47means. It's sort of similar to an API or
  517. 15:49an application programming interface. It
  518. 15:51just lets two softwares talk to each
  519. 15:52other. So Claude and Gmail or Claude and
  520. 15:55Fireflies. Connectors also exist on the
  521. 15:57free plan too and my own command center
  522. 15:59pulls in my ClickUp, my Slack, and my
  523. 16:01Gmail through these connectors. Now
  524. 16:03number 20 is plugins. A plugin is a
  525. 16:05bundle that you install in one go and it
  526. 16:07can include skills, commands,
  527. 16:09connectors, agents, all of these things
  528. 16:11packaged together. And by the way, in my
  529. 16:12free school community that I mentioned
  530. 16:14earlier, I've got tons of free plugins
  531. 16:15and skills and docs, tons of free stuff
  532. 16:17in there. But Anthropic has a directory
  533. 16:19where people can also submit other
  534. 16:20plugins and companies are shipping their
  535. 16:21own, like Salesforce which has a sales
  536. 16:23plugin and beta. And your own company
  537. 16:25can use the same plugins together, so
  538. 16:26everyone's kind of creating the same
  539. 16:28sort of docs and resources. Like I have
  540. 16:30a plugin for my team called AIS branded
  541. 16:32doc. Whenever anyone's making a document
  542. 16:34that might be externally facing, they
  543. 16:35have to run that skill so that all of
  544. 16:37our docs feel consistent and feel on
  545. 16:39brand to anything external. Now number
  546. 16:4121 is mods. And it's one of my favorite
  547. 16:44things in here. It's kind of recent and
  548. 16:45it's so so cool. A mod is a type of
  549. 16:47plugin that literally modifies or
  550. 16:49changes or hacks how Claude code itself
  551. 16:52works. You can add new commands, you can
  552. 16:54add new tools, you can even customize
  553. 16:55the interface or you can change just
  554. 16:57little pieces of the interface, like a
  555. 16:58panel beside your chat or you can add a
  556. 17:00little pet in the top right. And you
  557. 17:02don't have to code one. Anthropic's docs
  558. 17:03say that you can literally just describe
  559. 17:05the mod you want and Claude wires it in.
  560. 17:07So if you've ever been like I wish the
  561. 17:08Claude desktop app had this, just ask it
  562. 17:10to do it and it will build a mod for it.
  563. 17:12Now I've got seven of these myself. One
  564. 17:14of them saves me money by keeping my
  565. 17:16session cached so Claude doesn't have to
  566. 17:18re-read everything when I come back from
  567. 17:19[music] a break. One other one shows a
  568. 17:21progress bar whenever Claude's working
  569. 17:22towards some sort of goal and it shows
  570. 17:24me the drill down of all the tasks. I've
  571. 17:26also got a little pixel cat that I
  572. 17:27renamed Bite and just hangs out on my
  573. 17:29screen and tells me when other sessions
  574. 17:30are done. So really get creative with
  575. 17:32those mods. They're pretty fun but they
  576. 17:33can also be super super super useful
  577. 17:35too. Like the one I mentioned earlier
  578. 17:37that make sure that two sessions don't
  579. 17:38overwrite the same file. But anyways,
  580. 17:40now Claude knows who you are. The last
  581. 17:42part is about letting it actually work
  582. 17:44on its own. So number 22 is permission
  583. 17:46modes which control how much Claude asks
  584. 17:48you before it does something. And there
  585. 17:50are five of them. Manual asks before it
  586. 17:52edits files or runs commands. Accept
  587. 17:55edits lets it change files but still
  588. 17:57asks before most commands. Plan has it
  589. 18:00look around and propose a plan without
  590. 18:01changing anything. Auto mode runs
  591. 18:03without the routine prompts but a
  592. 18:04background check makes sure that each
  593. 18:06action lines up with what you actually
  594. 18:07asked for. And then bypass permissions
  595. 18:09or dangerously skip permissions skips
  596. 18:12almost all the prompts. Now for me, I
  597. 18:14always just leave auto on and this has
  598. 18:16been the default for new sessions on
  599. 18:17Pro, Max, and Team plans since August.
  600. 18:20And if you're nervous, then just start
  601. 18:21in plan mode, read the plan, and then
  602. 18:23let it go. But auto mode seems to do the
  603. 18:25trick for most cases, and it always will
  604. 18:27take the cautious side. You'd rather be
  605. 18:29safe than sorry. And then number 23 we
  606. 18:31have sub agents. Now a sub agent is a
  607. 18:33helper that Claude can send off to do
  608. 18:35one specific job, and it works in its
  609. 18:36own separate context window, if you
  610. 18:38remember when we talked about context
  611. 18:39windows earlier, and it only reports
  612. 18:40back a small summary to the main
  613. 18:42session, so it helps us save those
  614. 18:44tokens. So all the messy research and
  615. 18:45searching doesn't clog up your main
  616. 18:47conversation. Now I have this skill
  617. 18:49called roast room, which you guys can
  618. 18:50get if you want in my community, which
  619. 18:52is built on this idea of sub agents.
  620. 18:54Basically, I ask it a business question,
  621. 18:56and each seat on the board, like Alex
  622. 18:58Hormozi, Jeff Bezos, or Warren Buffett,
  623. 19:00is its own custom sub agent that I
  624. 19:02built. And all of these custom sub
  625. 19:03agents argue about my decision before
  626. 19:06they give me a verdict and before they
  627. 19:08give me some business advice. Now number
  628. 19:1024 is projects, and this one's a little
  629. 19:12confusing because the word means two
  630. 19:13different things right now. In the
  631. 19:15Claude app, a project is kind of like a
  632. 19:17folder for related chats with its own
  633. 19:19files and instructions. But in Claude
  634. 19:20code, a project is one ongoing
  635. 19:22conversation or like a folder that you
  636. 19:24have locally where Claude coordinates a
  637. 19:26whole system of related work for you.
  638. 19:28You tell it what needs doing and it
  639. 19:29starts a separate thread for each task,
  640. 19:31and those threads usually run in the
  641. 19:32cloud and in parallel, so they keep
  642. 19:34going after you close your laptop and
  643. 19:36you can check on them from your phone.
  644. 19:38Now the difference from sub agents is
  645. 19:39that a sub agent is a quick helper
  646. 19:40inside one session, while a project can
  647. 19:43run a full session for every task. So
  648. 19:45Claude code projects are in beta right
  649. 19:46now on Pro Max and Ultra and they're
  650. 19:48still rolling out, so if you don't see
  651. 19:49them yet, that's why. But once again,
  652. 19:51they get rolled out to everybody. And
  653. 19:52that brings us on to number 25 which is
  654. 19:54slash goal. Normally, Claude does one
  655. 19:57turn and then we'll kind of stop and
  656. 19:58wait for you to think. But with slash
  657. 20:00goal, you give it a finish line and it
  658. 20:02keeps working turn after turn until that
  659. 20:04condition is actually met. So just make
  660. 20:06sure the finish line is really really
  661. 20:08clear, so there's no question about when
  662. 20:09it's done because then you might get
  663. 20:11stuck in this loop where it's like I
  664. 20:12can't clear the goal, I can't clear the
  665. 20:13goal, and it just keeps saying that. But
  666. 20:15this has really become how I use Claude.
  667. 20:16It's about 20% of everything that I send
  668. 20:18and a lot of the research behind this
  669. 20:20video ran on a single slash goal. And
  670. 20:22I've got one bonus for you guys, which
  671. 20:23is number 26, which is scheduled tasks.
  672. 20:26This is how Claude works even when
  673. 20:28you're not there. In the desktop app,
  674. 20:29you can literally set up a scheduled
  675. 20:30task to run on a schedule like every
  676. 20:32Monday or every morning. And routines
  677. 20:34are basically scheduled tasks, but they
  678. 20:36just run in the cloud. And these can
  679. 20:37once again be triggered on a schedule or
  680. 20:39by events from your other tools. I've
  681. 20:41got one that updates my stats on the
  682. 20:42website every Sunday and another one
  683. 20:44that posts carousels every single 4
  684. 20:45hours. And the cool thing about
  685. 20:47scheduled tasks is you can also just
  686. 20:48create them with natural language. Hey
  687. 20:50Claude, build me a scheduled task for
  688. 20:51this time. And when the scheduled task
  689. 20:53goes off, you run this skill and then
  690. 20:56this skill. And it literally will just
  691. 20:57set it up for you. So you definitely
  692. 20:59don't need all 25 of these on day one.
  693. 21:01If you only set up three today, I'd
  694. 21:04start with the Claude MD, one skill for
  695. 21:06the thing that you do most, and then try
  696. 21:07out a few slash goal prompts. And then
  697. 21:09once you've started getting the hang of
  698. 21:10this, what I really want you guys to do
  699. 21:11next is build your AI operating system.
  700. 21:14So if you want to check out a full free
  701. 21:15course where I show you guys exactly how
  702. 21:18to build out an AI operating system with
  703. 21:19Claude Code, then join the link in the
  704. 21:21description, which is my free school
  705. 21:22community. I've got the full free course
  706. 21:24in there for you guys with a free plugin
  707. 21:27that helps you get set up. But that is
  708. 21:28going to do it for today. So I hope that
  709. 21:29you guys enjoyed the video or you
  710. 21:30learned something new. And if you did,
  711. 21:32please give it a like. It definitely
  712. 21:33helps me out a ton. And as always, I
  713. 21:34appreciate you guys making it to the end
  714. 21:35of the video. And I'll see you all in
  715. 21:37the next one. Thanks everyone.

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