Interactive Walkthrough: Click any yellow marker to zoom in, or choose Walk me through it to be led through in order. Step inside a section for the deeper version, and use Find to test yourself once the pieces feel familiar. Nothing here is a video, so move as fast or as slow as you want.
The working guide. This is the method you will use in the task: how to write instructions by letting Claude interview you instead of drafting cold, which sources earn a place in a project, and why the draft it hands you is never your finished voice. Download it and keep it open while you build.
Your turn: build the project, for real
Reading about a project does not give you one. Building it does. This is the task that finishes the course, and there is nothing to submit. The proof is the project sitting in your own account.
Open Claude, create a new project, and work through the guide in this order:
Dump, don't draft. Tell Claude, in plain language, everything you want it to do and everything you keep having to fix. Leave it messy. The organizing is not your job yet.
Let it interview you. Ask it for five questions that surface the rules you follow without noticing. Answer them honestly. Each answer is a rule you hold.
Have it write your instructions from your answers, then paste them into the project's instructions field. Include the honesty clause, the questions-before-drafts clause, and the data rule from the walkthrough.
Load one real source that does one nameable job: a voice sample, a framework, a reference you keep reaching for. No student names, ever.
Set your two switches. Training off, memory off.
That's the course. You came in meeting a Claude project as an empty box, and you're leaving with one built on purpose: honest by instruction, safe by rule, and set to interview you before it drafts. Nothing here was theory you file away. The proof is the project sitting in your own account, ready for real work tomorrow morning.