Claude Code · L4 · 1
Claude Code · ISTO.

Lesson 4 · Your tool moves forward

Before we start

Your tools exist. Today they move forward, and you learn to get yourself unstuck.

1 · Your project
Open it in the Code tab. You do it.
2 · Unstuck
Side chats and /coach. You add it.
3 · Access
Who sees what. You listen.
4 · Unblock it
Where your project stands, and two Claude helpers. You do it.
5 · GitHub
A private copy. You do it.

Blocks 1, 2 and 4 work whether or not you did the Before Lesson 4 lessons; block 5 needs git set up.

Your project · 5 min

Your project, open in the Code tab.

Your project in the Code tab
ActivityWatch first · 2 minOpen: your projectYour turn · 3 min

Claude works in the folder you open: open your project's own folder.

1Claude app → Code → + New.
2Look at the folder button under the message box. Another folder? Click it → Open folder… → your project's folder.
3Click the mode button, on the right of the same row, and choose Auto.
The row under the message box: This computer, the folder button showing a project folder, and the mode button set to Auto, each boxed in red
No project yet?
Choose one now and plan it, while the others move theirs forward. The steps are in the meeting chat.

Copy: the steps to plan a project, if you have none yet · with /grill-me · 5 steps, about 15 min1. In the Code tab, open your projects folder and send: Create a folder called [project-name] here. 2. Open that new folder with the folder button, then + New. 3. Switch the mode to Plan, then send: /grill-me I want to build [your project in one sentence], for [who uses it]. 4. Answer the questions until Grill Me writes the plan (10–15 minutes). 5. Switch Plan off, then send: Save the plan as PLAN.md in the project folder. Don't build anything yet.

Getting unstuck · 10 min

Getting unstuck on your own.

Three ways to get unstuck

When you're stuck, three ways to get help inside the Claude app.

Ask Claude
"Explain this simply, with an example." It never gets tired of the question.
A side chat
Ctrl + ; (Windows) or Cmd + ; (Mac). Ask while Claude keeps working: "What does this step do?" It answers from what's on screen; it can't open files.
/coach
A skill that changes how Claude helps you. "/coach I don't know what to build next."

Asking Claude is always the first move. /coach makes the answer one you learn from.

/coach
DemoWatch · 3 minDemo project: sales-report

Asked to fix it, Claude does it for you; /coach helps you fix it.

"Fix it"Claude fixes it, in its own words, and may tell you to type a command.
"/coach, it broke"First, stuck or broken? One hint at a time, or the error in three plain lines and one safe step. Needs a person: it drafts the message for a colleague or IT.

It stays in your skills after the course and works in every project.

/coach · add it
ActivityYour turn · 4 min

Add /coach to your skills, then check it's in the list.

1In the Code tab, any session: paste the download prompt and send.
2Start a new session: + New.
3Type / and start typing coach: you should see coach in the list.
Claude can't download it?
The link is in the meeting chat: open it in your browser, copy all the text, and ask Claude to save it as your coach skill.

Download prompt · saves /coach in your skillsDownload the file at https://adapttoai-walkthrough-assets.pages.dev/skills/coach-at-work/SKILL.md and save it exactly as it is, without retyping or summarising it, as .claude/skills/coach/SKILL.md inside my home folder. Create the folders if they're missing, and replace the file if it's already there. Then tell me in one line whether it worked.

Access · 9 min

Access: from your connector to the whole company.

A connector's access

A connector sees only what your account sees: give it reading only, where you can.

Read, or also editSome connectors can change data. Start with reading only, because a wrong edit lands in the real system.
Your account's viewNo more than you could open yourself.
Passwords and keys never in the chat or a fileBecause anything there can be read or shared by mistake.
Access at company scale

Who sees what is set by accounts and permissions, not by telling Claude.

Separate data by audience
Finance data where only finance accounts can open it, so a sales tool never reads it.
A shared database has an owner
One person decides what goes in and whose account can open what.
Company accounts, not personal ones
GitHub, and Vercel (where pages go online), in the company's name: the company decides who gets in.

"Don't show finance data" in a prompt is a request; an account without access is a lock.

Where am I · 22 min

Where your project stands, and helpers to move it forward.

Subagents

Subagents are Claude's helpers: one session coordinates, each helper does one job.

Each works on its own job, so the two don't mix them up. In the prompt they're called "threads".

Subagents · demo
DemoWatch · 5 minDemo project: sales-report

Watch: one prompt maps the project, then two subagents work on what blocks it.

1Paste Prompt B.
2While it works, open each subagent: ⋮ menu → Background tasks.
3Read the summary: what works now, and a draft message for whoever can unblock it.
Nothing blocks the project?
Same prompt: one finds how it could run on its own, the other writes a guide for a colleague.

Prompt B · Claude maps the project itself, then two subagentsLook at this project and tell me in five short lines: what it's for, what's built, what's next, what blocks it, and what would make it more useful for my team. No technical words. Then work only as a coordinator, and open two threads. Thread 1, researcher: if something blocks the project, read the official documentation of the system involved and find how to connect it, read-only. If you need the exact version of the system (for example Sage), tell me how to find it. If nothing blocks the project, find how it could run on its own or get its data automatically. Thread 2, files: if the project is waiting for data, make a small made-up file in the same shape as that system's export, mark it "Example data", and make the tool run on it. If nothing blocks the project, write a one-page "how to use it" for a colleague. When both are done, tell me in plain words: what you found, what works now, and, if someone else has to unblock me, the exact message to send them (IT, a colleague or my manager). Never ask me to paste a password or key here.

Subagents · your project
ActivityYour turn · 12 min

Your turn: your project's map, and two subagents on what blocks it.

1New session on your project. Did the Before Lesson 4 lessons: Prompt A, with the summary you pasted in the Academy. Didn't: Prompt B.
2While it works, open the subagents (⋮ → Background tasks). If Claude asks you something, answer.
3Read the draft message, then paste it in the meeting chat, or "nothing blocks me".
Stuck while it runs?
Open a side chat (Ctrl + ; or Cmd + ;) and type /coach with what you see.

Prompt A · you did the Before Lesson 4 lessons · paste your summary in itHere is where my project is, from my Before Lesson 4 summary: [paste your summary: Project, Built so far, Missing from the plan, Stuck on, Help I'd like] Start from it, don't redo it. Check it against the project and tell me in one line if anything has changed. Then work only as a coordinator, and open two threads. Thread 1, researcher: if something blocks the project, read the official documentation of the system involved and find how to connect it, read-only. If you need the exact version of the system (for example Sage), tell me how to find it. If nothing blocks the project, find how it could run on its own or get its data automatically. Thread 2, files: if the project is waiting for data, make a small made-up file in the same shape as that system's export, mark it "Example data", and make the tool run on it. If nothing blocks the project, write a one-page "how to use it" for a colleague. When both are done, tell me in plain words: what you found, what works now, and, if someone else has to unblock me, the exact message to send them (IT, a colleague or my manager). Never ask me to paste a password or key here.

Prompt B · you didn't do them · Claude maps the project itselfLook at this project and tell me in five short lines: what it's for, what's built, what's next, what blocks it, and what would make it more useful for my team. No technical words. Then work only as a coordinator, and open two threads. Thread 1, researcher: if something blocks the project, read the official documentation of the system involved and find how to connect it, read-only. If you need the exact version of the system (for example Sage), tell me how to find it. If nothing blocks the project, find how it could run on its own or get its data automatically. Thread 2, files: if the project is waiting for data, make a small made-up file in the same shape as that system's export, mark it "Example data", and make the tool run on it. If nothing blocks the project, write a one-page "how to use it" for a colleague. When both are done, tell me in plain words: what you found, what works now, and, if someone else has to unblock me, the exact message to send them (IT, a colleague or my manager). Never ask me to paste a password or key here.

GitHub · 10 min

Push your project to GitHub.

First push
ActivityWatch first · 3 minYour turn · 7 minDemo project: sales-report

The first push: a private copy on GitHub, passwords and real data left out.

1On your own project, send Get it ready.
2Send Put it on GitHub.
3Open the link Claude gives you: the label next to the name says Private.
Git not set up yet?
Watch this time. After the two Before Lesson 3 lessons on GitHub and git, send the same two prompts.

Get it ready · saves a first version, leaves out keys and real dataI want to put this project on GitHub. First get it ready, in this project's folder only, and save a first version of everything that's here. Leave out any .env file, anything with passwords or keys, and any real data export: they stay only on this computer. Explain what you did in two lines.

Put it on GitHub · private repository, first pushThis project only exists on my computer. Put it on GitHub: create a private repository and do the first push. Before anything goes up, check that nothing secret goes with it: no .env file, no passwords, no keys, no raw data exports. Explain what you're doing as you go.

To keep

What stays: your project moving, /coach, and a map for your next project.

Your project, moving
A summary of where it stands, example data so it runs, a private copy on GitHub.
/coach and side chats
After asking Claude, the help you learn from, in every project, with no teacher behind it.
The Agentic Map, for later
A project where your way of working lives. The starter is in the After Lesson 4 lessons.

After class, two minutes: the final questionnaire, and the message you sent (or will send) to unblock your project.

Your turn to ask

Questions?