Every Claude 2.0 Concept Explained for Normal People — Transcript
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- 0:00Okay, so over the last 12 weeks,
- 0:01Anthropic has shipped three new models,
- 0:03put docs, slides, and designs inside
- 0:06every single chat, launched dashboards
- 0:08and animated explainers, released a
- 0:09brand new agent app called Duet, and the
- 0:11$200 plan doesn't even have a 5-hour
- 0:14limit anymore. And people are kind of
- 0:16calling this Claude 2.0, which is just
- 0:18obviously a nickname, not a new model.
- 0:19And if you feel a little bit lost right
- 0:21now, that's probably pretty normal. So
- 0:22in this video, I'm going to break down
- 0:23every Claude concept that you need to
- 0:25understand, 25 of them in plain English,
- 0:27split across five parts. And you don't
- 0:30need to be technical at all or know how
- 0:31to code for any of it. So let's get
- 0:33right into it. Okay, so part one is the
- 0:35brain, which is basically what Claude is
- 0:37actually running on. And concept number
- 0:39one is AI models. Claude isn't just one
- 0:42AI. It's a family of models. And right
- 0:44now, there are three main models. Haiku
- 0:47is the small one, so it's cheapest and
- 0:49fastest. Sonnet is kind of the everyday
- 0:51workhorse. And Opus is the one that you
- 0:53hand the big, long, messy jobs to. And
- 0:55right now, they're all kind of called
- 0:575.5 because that's the most recent
- 0:59version, but in the future, we'll see
- 1:00six and we will see seven and eight.
- 1:03Now, we also do have another model
- 1:04that's even more intelligent and it's
- 1:06called Fable, but for right now, you can
- 1:08say that the majority of work, even Opus
- 1:10is overkill. So like Sonnet 5.5, Opus
- 1:125.5, very, very good models. But the way
- 1:14I think about them is like a team. You
- 1:16wouldn't have your most senior person
- 1:18answering every quick email, and you
- 1:20wouldn't hand the whole project to your
- 1:21newest hire. Now, I actually tested
- 1:23Sonnet against Opus on seven real
- 1:24workflows, and Sonnet won the stuff with
- 1:27really clear instructions like a
- 1:28resource guide where I could finish it
- 1:30in about half the time and usually
- 1:32cheaper than Opus. But Opus won the
- 1:34tasks when the goal was vague, like
- 1:36building out a 90-day plan. And keep in
- 1:37mind, on the free plan, you get Sonnet
- 1:39and Haiku, but not Opus. Now, the other
- 1:41one that I talked about, like I said,
- 1:43Fable. Fable 5.1 is Anthropic's top-tier
- 1:46model. It's the one that the government
- 1:48actually took away when they first
- 1:49dropped Fable 5
- 1:50because it was too powerful. And they
- 1:52say that it's built for demanding
- 1:53reasoning and really, really long tasks
- 1:55where Claude works on its own. And it's
- 1:57also very expensive. If you pay per use,
- 2:00it costs two and a half times what Opus
- 2:02does. And Anthropic's own release notes
- 2:04say that Opus 5.5 performs near fable
- 2:06level on most work. So for most of our
- 2:09use cases, Opus is going to be plenty of
- 2:11power. Now on Max and Ultra plans, which
- 2:13is the subscriptions that you get on,
- 2:14you know, 20 bucks a month, 100 bucks a
- 2:16month, or 200 bucks a month, Fable can
- 2:18use up to half of your weekly limit. And
- 2:20on Pro, you pay for it with usage
- 2:22credits. There's also a command called
- 2:24slash advisor that lets Claude check in
- 2:26with a stronger model like Fable at key
- 2:28moments during a task. So you get some
- 2:30of the brain power without running the
- 2:31entire job on
- 2:33Fable. All right, so concept number
- 2:35three now is tokens and the context
- 2:36window. A token is basically a chunk of
- 2:39word and it's how everything gets
- 2:40measured for AI models, both what you
- 2:42pay and how fast you hit your limits,
- 2:44whether that be the session limits or
- 2:46the weekly limits. And then the context
- 2:48window is how many tokens Claude can
- 2:50hold in its head at one time. Every
- 2:52current model inside of Claude Code has
- 2:54a 1 million token window, which
- 2:56Anthropic says is roughly 555,000 words.
- 2:59So like a whole stack of novels at once.
- 3:01And most of your tokens go to reading,
- 3:03not writing. When I measured seven of my
- 3:05own tasks, Claude read about 160 million
- 3:08tokens and only wrote about 800,000. So
- 3:11for every token it writes, it might be
- 3:12reading about 200, which is why the
- 3:14stuff you load in, like your files and
- 3:16your instructions, those matter so much
- 3:18more than how long your prompt is. Okay,
- 3:21now number four, effort levels. Effort
- 3:23is how hard Claude has to think or how
- 3:25hard Claude does think before it
- 3:27answers. And the levels that you get to
- 3:28choose from are low, medium, high, extra
- 3:31high, and max. Now on the 5.5 models,
- 3:33the default is medium. And you can
- 3:35change it by either typing slash effort
- 3:38or by in the bottom right in the desktop
- 3:39app just choosing the effort level. But
- 3:42more effort isn't always better. I
- 3:44actually ran an experiment where I gave
- 3:45Opus 5.5 the exact same prompt at every
- 3:48single effort level. Low finished in
- 3:50about 17 minutes for under $4 and it was
- 3:52super glitchy. Extra high was the winner
- 3:54at an hour and a half of run, but it
- 3:56cost about $26. And Max in this case
- 3:59took two and a half hours, cost 50
- 4:01bucks, and was not really that good. It
- 4:03was still buggy. So in Tropics own Docs
- 4:05even say that max is prone to
- 4:07overthinking. So you don't need to give
- 4:09it so much power. So what I do myself is
- 4:12I keep medium as my everyday setting,
- 4:14and I only bump it up for really hard
- 4:16stuff like video editing. I'll always
- 4:18throw it on extra high. But if you're
- 4:19creating Docs and you're doing general
- 4:21knowledge work, you could even just use
- 4:22Sonic 5.5 on medium for most things,
- 4:24especially when you combine that with
- 4:25skills, which we'll talk about later.
- 4:27Now there is also something called Ultra
- 4:28Code, which isn't really a level. It's
- 4:30more of a setting where Claude plans out
- 4:31the whole workflow for each big task
- 4:33before it starts. So that is something
- 4:35that you can pull another lever as well.
- 4:37But anyways, number five is about usage
- 4:38limits and plans. So Claude has two
- 4:41limits running at the same time, a
- 4:425-hour session limit and a weekly limit,
- 4:45and they are shared. So your chats in
- 4:46the Claude app and your work in Claude
- 4:48Code all pull from that same bucket. So
- 4:50for plans, free is $0 a month, Pro is
- 4:52$20 a month, Max is $100 for five times
- 4:55Pro's usage, and then the $200 plan is
- 4:57now called Ultra. And Ultra gets you 10
- 5:00times Pro's weekly usage. And for
- 5:03verified Ultra accounts, there's no
- 5:04longer going to be a 5-hour limit, which
- 5:06is pretty awesome. Max and Ultra also
- 5:08come with $100 and $200 a month in API
- 5:11credits as well, which are for building
- 5:12your own apps on top of Claude so they
- 5:14don't work inside the Claude Code app.
- 5:17It's more about like programmatic
- 5:18automations that can sort of like run
- 5:20more in the background. Now if you want
- 5:21to see where you're at, you can just
- 5:22type /usage or you can click on the
- 5:24little circle in the bottom right of the
- 5:25desktop app, and a lot of what's in this
- 5:27video depends on your plan. So if you
- 5:29watch a video and you don't see a
- 5:30particular feature, then maybe it's
- 5:32because of the plan you're on or maybe
- 5:34you need to be on a weight list or
- 5:35something like that. And I put together
- 5:36a free cheat sheet with all 25 of these
- 5:38concepts and exactly which plan gets
- 5:40what, and that is inside my free school
- 5:42community, which is linked down in the
- 5:43description. So anyways, that's what
- 5:45Claude runs on. But where do you
- 5:47actually use it now that the app has
- 5:48three different tabs? [music] So number
- 5:50six is chat. Chat is the Claude that
- 5:52most people already know where you just
- 5:54type a message and you get an answer
- 5:55back. But since September 16th, chat can
- 5:58do a lot more than just talk. You can
- 5:59make Docs, slides, and designs right
- 6:01inside any conversation, and even the
- 6:03free plan gets web search, memory,
- 6:05connectors, and artifacts. And I'll
- 6:07explain all those things in a little
- 6:08bit. So chat is where you could go to,
- 6:10you know, kind of do a Google search or
- 6:11think things through really quickly or
- 6:13make some quick drafts. But number seven
- 6:16is code. So Claude code. The code tab in
- 6:18the desktop app is Claude code. And I
- 6:21know the name scares a lot of people
- 6:22off, but trust me, it's not scary at
- 6:23all. Claude code works inside a folder
- 6:25on your computer. So it can read your
- 6:27local files. It can create new ones,
- 6:29edit them, move them around. It can run
- 6:31commands. So it's less of a chatbot and
- 6:33more of an assistant that actually does
- 6:34the work. And it's not just for
- 6:36developers. I promise you. I don't come
- 6:37from a coding background, and pretty
- 6:38much my entire business runs out of
- 6:40Claude code out of one folder. Everyone
- 6:42on my team, no one's a formal coder, but
- 6:44everyone uses Claude code, and that's
- 6:45how we're able to move so much faster.
- 6:47It's literally like having a best friend
- 6:49that is the world's best coder that
- 6:51talks to you like a normal person, and
- 6:52you can ask it to do things like a
- 6:53normal person. It's also how I edit all
- 6:55my videos, like the one that I'm you're
- 6:57watching right now. I recorded it, I
- 6:58handed Claude the footage, and it helped
- 7:00me kind of cut out things and get the
- 7:02B-roll and throw it all together. Claude
- 7:03code comes with Pro and up when we talk
- 7:06about subscriptions. Now number eight,
- 7:08Cowork. Anthropic literally describes
- 7:10Cowork as Claude code for the rest of
- 7:12your work, meaning all the stuff that
- 7:13isn't coding. You can give it a goal, it
- 7:15can work across your files and your
- 7:16tools, and you can come back to finished
- 7:18work that you can just review. And their
- 7:19examples are things like reviewing a
- 7:21whole folder of contracts against a
- 7:22playbook or building a spreadsheet that
- 7:24reconciles a bunch of, you know,
- 7:26regional exports or reports or something
- 7:27like that. But honestly, the way I feel
- 7:29about it is why learn Cowork if
- 7:31eventually you might need the power of
- 7:32code? So I would just recommend that
- 7:33you're learning Claude code, and my
- 7:35channel has tons of great videos. In
- 7:37fact, I'll tag a six-hour Claude code
- 7:38course for non-coders, for regular
- 7:40people right up here so that you guys
- 7:42can check that out after this video if
- 7:43you need to. All right, so moving on to
- 7:44number nine, sessions. Every
- 7:47conversation in the Claude code tab is a
- 7:48session with its own history and its own
- 7:51folder. And Anthropic rebuilt the
- 7:52desktop app around running a bunch of
- 7:54sessions at the same time. So you can
- 7:56have one session doing research, another
- 7:57one writing, and another one building
- 7:59all side by side. It's super super
- 8:01slick. You can also hit command N for a
- 8:03new session, and you can open two of
- 8:04them next to each each in split view.
- 8:06Claude can even message and manage your
- 8:08other sessions for you. It's really
- 8:09really cool. I've had days with 18 or 20
- 8:12or 30 of these running in pairs just to
- 8:14test models against each other and
- 8:16actually built a little mod that warns
- 8:18me when two sessions are about to edit
- 8:19the same file. And with remote control,
- 8:22your computer shows up on your phone so
- 8:23you can check in on sessions from
- 8:25literally anywhere if you have your
- 8:26phone. Now number 10 is side chats.
- 8:29Let's say you're halfway through a big
- 8:30task and you want to ask a question
- 8:32without derailing that session. You can
- 8:34hit command semicolon or you can type /
- 8:37b t w for / by the way and you can get a
- 8:39side chat and you can see everything in
- 8:41your session but nothing that you say
- 8:43there gets added back into that main
- 8:44conversation which is super nice. Just
- 8:46keep in mind here that in the desktop
- 8:47app, it doesn't save your side chats so
- 8:49if you close one from the app, it'll be
- 8:51gone. But that brings us on to number 11
- 8:53which is Claude Duet which is
- 8:55Anthropic's brand new agent app. You
- 8:57message it the way you'd message a
- 8:58person by typing or talking and it does
- 9:00things in the apps that you've connected
- 9:02and it's super super proactive. It's
- 9:04basically it's Anthropic's response to
- 9:06you know Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.
- 9:09But every morning it can do things like
- 9:10scan your email and your calendar. It
- 9:12can flag what needs your attention and
- 9:13it can start drafting replies for you to
- 9:14review right away. And throughout the
- 9:16day, it follows up on threads that have
- 9:18gone quiet. It's designed to ask you
- 9:20before it sends a message or makes any
- 9:22sort of payment or signs a document or
- 9:24deletes anything. And right now it's in
- 9:25research preview with a wait list US
- 9:27only on Pro Max and Ultra plans. So
- 9:31that's part two. That's where you use
- 9:33Claude. Now let's talk about what it can
- 9:35actually make for you. Okay, so number
- 9:3712 here is artifacts. [music]
- 9:39An artifact is anything that Claude
- 9:40makes for you that opens up right beside
- 9:42the chat like a document, a deck, a
- 9:43design, a dashboard, or a small
- 9:45interactive tool, really whatever you
- 9:46want it to be. And they start out
- 9:48private so nobody sees them unless you
- 9:50actually share them. And I actually made
- 9:51our October All Hands deck for my team
- 9:53as an artifact but I've also made like
- 9:56internal apps and actual like dashboards
- 9:58that I want to come back to and revisit.
- 9:59I've made those artifacts as well. I've
- 10:01even made myself an artifact when I was
- 10:02planning a trip with my friends and I
- 10:04could send it to them as well. So very
- 10:06very cool stuff. Now number 13 is kind
- 10:08of like 13 14 15 but we're just going to
- 10:10call it 13. And this is docs, slides,
- 10:12and design, which are the three most
- 10:14common types of artifact. So docs are
- 10:16documents, slides are presentations, and
- 10:18design is for visual stuff like landing
- 10:20pages and, you know, app mockups or
- 10:22something like that. As of October 8th,
- 10:24all three of these are out of beta and
- 10:26on every single plan, including free.
- 10:28And it topic says that people have
- 10:29already made over 45 million docs,
- 10:31decks, and designs. So clearly people
- 10:33are loving this feature. Now I did do a
- 10:35full two-hour course on Claude Design
- 10:36back in April, and the big change since
- 10:38then is that you don't have to go
- 10:39anywhere else to use it. It used to be a
- 10:41separate app, but now design lives right
- 10:43inside your chats. And the old
- 10:44standalone site, claude.ai/design,
- 10:47is going to be closing in December of
- 10:49this year. So if you've got a bunch of
- 10:50workflows over there, just make sure
- 10:51you're kind of like aware of that or
- 10:53you're going to think that they have
- 10:54disappeared. But anyways, that brings us
- 10:55on to number 14, which is dashboards.
- 10:58You ask a question about your business
- 10:59in plain English, and Claude pulls the
- 11:01answer from your data. It builds a
- 11:02dashboard, and it keeps it updated as
- 11:04the data changes. It connects to things
- 11:06like BigQuery, Snowflake, Databricks,
- 11:08and Salesforce, and you can click on any
- 11:10number to see the exact query behind it.
- 11:12So you're not just trusting a chart that
- 11:14you can't check. Now dashboards right
- 11:15now are in beta on the paid plan, so if
- 11:17you don't see it, that's probably why.
- 11:19But don't stress, everything eventually
- 11:20rolls out to everybody, except for
- 11:22Mythos. We still haven't gotten that.
- 11:23But anyway, number 15 is motion. Motion
- 11:26turns a prompt into a short animated
- 11:28explainer that plays like a video, and
- 11:30then you can download it as an MP4. So
- 11:32it's basically Claude native video
- 11:34editing. Now I myself typically use
- 11:36Hyper Frames, which is a free open
- 11:37source tool for video editing, but all
- 11:39of this is getting really, really good.
- 11:40And the key about this AI video editing
- 11:42is that it's not using a video
- 11:43generation model. The animation is
- 11:45actually built with code, so there's no
- 11:46AI generated footage or fake people in
- 11:48it. It's in beta right now on Team and
- 11:50Enterprise right now, but like I said,
- 11:52it will come out to everybody. And this
- 11:53is pretty much the same idea that I use
- 11:55for my own videos because a lot of the
- 11:56motion graphics on my channel are built
- 11:58with code, with Claude code as well,
- 12:00which is why they're so easy to change
- 12:01because I can change the color of
- 12:02something or the size of something
- 12:04without having to re-render the entire
- 12:06like if it was an AI generated video. So
- 12:08Claude can do a ton of stuff, but it's
- 12:11only as good as what it about you, which
- 12:13is part four. [music] So, number 16 is
- 12:16memory. Every new conversation starts
- 12:18completely fresh. Like when you shoot a
- 12:20new message off to Claude, it basically
- 12:21wakes up blind and it has to read things
- 12:24in your project in order to know who you
- 12:25are. And memory is how Claude carries
- 12:27things over from one session to the next
- 12:29or from one day to the next. Now, in the
- 12:31Claude app, memory is on every single
- 12:33plan, even free. And in Claude Code,
- 12:35there's something called auto memory
- 12:37where Claude writes its own notes based
- 12:39on your corrections and preferences and
- 12:41then it reads them at the start of every
- 12:42session. So, literally the more you use
- 12:44Claude Code, the smarter it gets about
- 12:46you and how you like to work. Now, I've
- 12:47got over 150 of those notes right now
- 12:50inside of my projects. One of them
- 12:52literally just says that Grokbot is
- 12:53spelled with a space because I corrected
- 12:55it enough times because it kept spelling
- 12:57Grokbot without a space. So, auto memory
- 12:59is in fact automatic. Now, number 17 is
- 13:02the Claude.md.
- 13:04So, if memory is what Claude writes
- 13:05down, Claude.md is what you write down.
- 13:08It's just a text file with your
- 13:09instructions and your rules and Claude
- 13:11loads it at the start of every session.
- 13:13So, mine basically starts with, hey, you
- 13:14are Nate Herks, AI operating system.
- 13:16Your job is to save him time, blah blah
- 13:18blah. And then it's basically just a map
- 13:20of where everything in my business
- 13:21lives. So, if you want business
- 13:23contacts, you go to this folder. If you
- 13:24want, you know, brand assets, you go to
- 13:26this folder. And it's just a routing map
- 13:27of where I can find all my stuff. Now,
- 13:29one quick tip is that you want to keep
- 13:31this lean because it loads every single
- 13:33time. Remember how I said every time you
- 13:34shoot off a message to Claude, it wakes
- 13:35up fresh? It will read that Claude.md
- 13:37every time. So, the recommendation is
- 13:39really to keep that within 200 lines.
- 13:42Now, number 18 is probably my favorite
- 13:43Claude Code feature ever and that is
- 13:45skills. A skill is a saved set of
- 13:48instructions for one specific job
- 13:50written in a file called skill.md. And
- 13:52whenever you hear this .md thing, that
- 13:54just means markdown file. And markdown
- 13:56is just a type of computer language
- 13:58that's very very human readable. It's
- 14:00super easy to read, but it just gives
- 14:01computer more structure when it's
- 14:03reading something. So, you've got like,
- 14:04you know, section headers and bullet
- 14:05points and different sorts of like like
- 14:07bold, things like that. So, Claude will
- 14:09basically use a relevant skill whenever
- 14:12it identifies that it needs to or you
- 14:14can call one yourself by typing a slash
- 14:17and then the skills name. And skills are
- 14:18super, super cheap to keep around
- 14:20because Claude only sees a short
- 14:21description of each skill until it
- 14:23actually needs it. Now I myself have
- 14:25over 100 skills and the way that most of
- 14:27them get made is really, really simple.
- 14:29If I've typed the same request over and
- 14:31over, turn it into a skill. I typed
- 14:33process this YouTube video into the
- 14:35Google Sheet master database and the
- 14:37wiki. I've done that probably 15 times
- 14:39and then I realized, oh, why don't I
- 14:40just turn this into a skill? And now I
- 14:41have one called process video. And a
- 14:43skill can be anything. It can literally
- 14:44be two prompts or it could be an entire
- 14:46workflow that runs over the course of an
- 14:48hour. It's just when you turn some sort
- 14:49of process that already exists into a
- 14:53reference or an instruction guide that
- 14:54Claude can then follow for you. So if
- 14:56you've ever done something twice, turn
- 14:58it into a skill. If you ever have
- 14:59deliverables that you need to create,
- 15:01turn that into a skill. For example,
- 15:02once I make a YouTube video, what I do
- 15:04is I run my process video skill and then
- 15:06I run my LinkedIn creation skill and
- 15:07then I run my X article skill and then I
- 15:09run my upload skill and then I run my
- 15:12packaging skills. So I've turned all of
- 15:14these things into simple slash commands
- 15:15that I can ask Claude for instead of
- 15:17having to re-explain myself. So start
- 15:19building as many skills as you can. And
- 15:21that brings us on to number 19 which is
- 15:23connectors. [music]
- 15:24Connectors plug Claude or connect Claude
- 15:26into the apps that you already use like
- 15:27Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Slack,
- 15:29ClickUp, whatever you need. So it can
- 15:32actually read and do things in there
- 15:33with hands rather than just having you
- 15:35copy and paste everything back and
- 15:36forth. It's really the big difference
- 15:38between an agent and just a chatbot. Now
- 15:40under the hood, a lot of these run on
- 15:42something called MCP which stands for
- 15:44model context protocol. You don't
- 15:46really, really need to know what that
- 15:47means. It's sort of similar to an API or
- 15:49an application programming interface. It
- 15:51just lets two softwares talk to each
- 15:52other. So Claude and Gmail or Claude and
- 15:55Fireflies. Connectors also exist on the
- 15:57free plan too and my own command center
- 15:59pulls in my ClickUp, my Slack, and my
- 16:01Gmail through these connectors. Now
- 16:03number 20 is plugins. A plugin is a
- 16:05bundle that you install in one go and it
- 16:07can include skills, commands,
- 16:09connectors, agents, all of these things
- 16:11packaged together. And by the way, in my
- 16:12free school community that I mentioned
- 16:14earlier, I've got tons of free plugins
- 16:15and skills and docs, tons of free stuff
- 16:17in there. But Anthropic has a directory
- 16:19where people can also submit other
- 16:20plugins and companies are shipping their
- 16:21own, like Salesforce which has a sales
- 16:23plugin and beta. And your own company
- 16:25can use the same plugins together, so
- 16:26everyone's kind of creating the same
- 16:28sort of docs and resources. Like I have
- 16:30a plugin for my team called AIS branded
- 16:32doc. Whenever anyone's making a document
- 16:34that might be externally facing, they
- 16:35have to run that skill so that all of
- 16:37our docs feel consistent and feel on
- 16:39brand to anything external. Now number
- 16:4121 is mods. And it's one of my favorite
- 16:44things in here. It's kind of recent and
- 16:45it's so so cool. A mod is a type of
- 16:47plugin that literally modifies or
- 16:49changes or hacks how Claude code itself
- 16:52works. You can add new commands, you can
- 16:54add new tools, you can even customize
- 16:55the interface or you can change just
- 16:57little pieces of the interface, like a
- 16:58panel beside your chat or you can add a
- 17:00little pet in the top right. And you
- 17:02don't have to code one. Anthropic's docs
- 17:03say that you can literally just describe
- 17:05the mod you want and Claude wires it in.
- 17:07So if you've ever been like I wish the
- 17:08Claude desktop app had this, just ask it
- 17:10to do it and it will build a mod for it.
- 17:12Now I've got seven of these myself. One
- 17:14of them saves me money by keeping my
- 17:16session cached so Claude doesn't have to
- 17:18re-read everything when I come back from
- 17:19[music] a break. One other one shows a
- 17:21progress bar whenever Claude's working
- 17:22towards some sort of goal and it shows
- 17:24me the drill down of all the tasks. I've
- 17:26also got a little pixel cat that I
- 17:27renamed Bite and just hangs out on my
- 17:29screen and tells me when other sessions
- 17:30are done. So really get creative with
- 17:32those mods. They're pretty fun but they
- 17:33can also be super super super useful
- 17:35too. Like the one I mentioned earlier
- 17:37that make sure that two sessions don't
- 17:38overwrite the same file. But anyways,
- 17:40now Claude knows who you are. The last
- 17:42part is about letting it actually work
- 17:44on its own. So number 22 is permission
- 17:46modes which control how much Claude asks
- 17:48you before it does something. And there
- 17:50are five of them. Manual asks before it
- 17:52edits files or runs commands. Accept
- 17:55edits lets it change files but still
- 17:57asks before most commands. Plan has it
- 18:00look around and propose a plan without
- 18:01changing anything. Auto mode runs
- 18:03without the routine prompts but a
- 18:04background check makes sure that each
- 18:06action lines up with what you actually
- 18:07asked for. And then bypass permissions
- 18:09or dangerously skip permissions skips
- 18:12almost all the prompts. Now for me, I
- 18:14always just leave auto on and this has
- 18:16been the default for new sessions on
- 18:17Pro, Max, and Team plans since August.
- 18:20And if you're nervous, then just start
- 18:21in plan mode, read the plan, and then
- 18:23let it go. But auto mode seems to do the
- 18:25trick for most cases, and it always will
- 18:27take the cautious side. You'd rather be
- 18:29safe than sorry. And then number 23 we
- 18:31have sub agents. Now a sub agent is a
- 18:33helper that Claude can send off to do
- 18:35one specific job, and it works in its
- 18:36own separate context window, if you
- 18:38remember when we talked about context
- 18:39windows earlier, and it only reports
- 18:40back a small summary to the main
- 18:42session, so it helps us save those
- 18:44tokens. So all the messy research and
- 18:45searching doesn't clog up your main
- 18:47conversation. Now I have this skill
- 18:49called roast room, which you guys can
- 18:50get if you want in my community, which
- 18:52is built on this idea of sub agents.
- 18:54Basically, I ask it a business question,
- 18:56and each seat on the board, like Alex
- 18:58Hormozi, Jeff Bezos, or Warren Buffett,
- 19:00is its own custom sub agent that I
- 19:02built. And all of these custom sub
- 19:03agents argue about my decision before
- 19:06they give me a verdict and before they
- 19:08give me some business advice. Now number
- 19:1024 is projects, and this one's a little
- 19:12confusing because the word means two
- 19:13different things right now. In the
- 19:15Claude app, a project is kind of like a
- 19:17folder for related chats with its own
- 19:19files and instructions. But in Claude
- 19:20code, a project is one ongoing
- 19:22conversation or like a folder that you
- 19:24have locally where Claude coordinates a
- 19:26whole system of related work for you.
- 19:28You tell it what needs doing and it
- 19:29starts a separate thread for each task,
- 19:31and those threads usually run in the
- 19:32cloud and in parallel, so they keep
- 19:34going after you close your laptop and
- 19:36you can check on them from your phone.
- 19:38Now the difference from sub agents is
- 19:39that a sub agent is a quick helper
- 19:40inside one session, while a project can
- 19:43run a full session for every task. So
- 19:45Claude code projects are in beta right
- 19:46now on Pro Max and Ultra and they're
- 19:48still rolling out, so if you don't see
- 19:49them yet, that's why. But once again,
- 19:51they get rolled out to everybody. And
- 19:52that brings us on to number 25 which is
- 19:54slash goal. Normally, Claude does one
- 19:57turn and then we'll kind of stop and
- 19:58wait for you to think. But with slash
- 20:00goal, you give it a finish line and it
- 20:02keeps working turn after turn until that
- 20:04condition is actually met. So just make
- 20:06sure the finish line is really really
- 20:08clear, so there's no question about when
- 20:09it's done because then you might get
- 20:11stuck in this loop where it's like I
- 20:12can't clear the goal, I can't clear the
- 20:13goal, and it just keeps saying that. But
- 20:15this has really become how I use Claude.
- 20:16It's about 20% of everything that I send
- 20:18and a lot of the research behind this
- 20:20video ran on a single slash goal. And
- 20:22I've got one bonus for you guys, which
- 20:23is number 26, which is scheduled tasks.
- 20:26This is how Claude works even when
- 20:28you're not there. In the desktop app,
- 20:29you can literally set up a scheduled
- 20:30task to run on a schedule like every
- 20:32Monday or every morning. And routines
- 20:34are basically scheduled tasks, but they
- 20:36just run in the cloud. And these can
- 20:37once again be triggered on a schedule or
- 20:39by events from your other tools. I've
- 20:41got one that updates my stats on the
- 20:42website every Sunday and another one
- 20:44that posts carousels every single 4
- 20:45hours. And the cool thing about
- 20:47scheduled tasks is you can also just
- 20:48create them with natural language. Hey
- 20:50Claude, build me a scheduled task for
- 20:51this time. And when the scheduled task
- 20:53goes off, you run this skill and then
- 20:56this skill. And it literally will just
- 20:57set it up for you. So you definitely
- 20:59don't need all 25 of these on day one.
- 21:01If you only set up three today, I'd
- 21:04start with the Claude MD, one skill for
- 21:06the thing that you do most, and then try
- 21:07out a few slash goal prompts. And then
- 21:09once you've started getting the hang of
- 21:10this, what I really want you guys to do
- 21:11next is build your AI operating system.
- 21:14So if you want to check out a full free
- 21:15course where I show you guys exactly how
- 21:18to build out an AI operating system with
- 21:19Claude Code, then join the link in the
- 21:21description, which is my free school
- 21:22community. I've got the full free course
- 21:24in there for you guys with a free plugin
- 21:27that helps you get set up. But that is
- 21:28going to do it for today. So I hope that
- 21:29you guys enjoyed the video or you
- 21:30learned something new. And if you did,
- 21:32please give it a like. It definitely
- 21:33helps me out a ton. And as always, I
- 21:34appreciate you guys making it to the end
- 21:35of the video. And I'll see you all in
- 21:37the next one. Thanks everyone.
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