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Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-native agent. It runs on your laptop, reads your files, executes shell commands, and remembers what you taught it via a small set of config files. For a CEO, the move is to stop using Claude as a tab in a browser and start using it as a co-worker that lives where your work lives.
Below: everything we have published on Claude Code.
The Claude Code bookA 156-page operator's manual for running your week from Claude Code. Written for a CEO who has never opened a terminal. Read the contents →Start here
- Persistent memory across Claude Code sessions · the first thing to set up; sessions stop forgetting your context.
- Claude Code routines · turning repeated prompts into one-keystroke commands.
- Granola to markdown · a small adjacent workflow showing the file-system pattern Claude Code thrives on.
Workflows & explainers
- The email command center: five inboxes, one digest, nothing sends without you A Claude Code skill that reads every inbox you own, sorts the signal from the noise, drafts replies in your voice, and hands you one numbered digest. You reply …
- When to use /goal vs. /loop in Claude Code Two Claude Code commands that both keep it running without you re-prompting. `/goal` drives one job forward, turn after turn, until a finish line you define is …
- What is the Compound Engineering plugin for Claude Code? The Compound Engineering plugin is a free add-on for [Claude Code](/learn/claude-code) that bolts a plan, build, review, learn loop plus a library of 37 skills …
- Claude Code in the terminal vs the desktop app: which should you use? Same engine, two front doors. The terminal is the scriptable command line you type into; the desktop app is that same agent in a windowed workspace with visual …
- When to use a goal vs. a dynamic workflow in Claude Code Two new Claude Code features that both let it keep working without you. A dynamic workflow goes wide. A goal keeps going. One question tells you which to reach …
- What are dynamic workflows in Claude Code? Claude Code's new ability to plan a big job, run tens to hundreds of agents on its pieces in parallel, check the work, and hand you one finished result. Anthrop…
- Memory and Projects for beginners: what they are and when to switch them on Every chat you open starts with no memory of you, and once you understand why, the two fixes take about ten minutes to set up.
- An AI chief-of-staff for your calendar An AI that reviews your week the way a great chief of staff would: flagging conflicts and back-to-backs, defending your deep-work time, and briefing you on ever…
- Turn a messy brain-dump into a prioritized week A stream-of-consciousness dump of everything in your head, turned into a ranked weekly plan mapped to your real goals, with the "only you can do this" items sep…
- Build your first software tool in Claude Code Describe a tool out loud. Forty minutes later, open a working app in your browser. No code, no engineer, no budget.
- Claude Code tips for non-technical CEOs The keyboard shortcuts are a different page. This is how to actually work with it when you can't read a line of the code it writes.
- Inbox zero for CEOs: triage and draft replies in the terminal An AI pass over your inbox that sorts the last day's mail into what needs you, what's just FYI, and what's noise, then drafts replies in your voice as Gmail dra…
- What are connectors in Claude Code? The plug that lets Claude reach into the tools you already use, your email, Slack, your numbers, and do the work there instead of just talking about it.
- What is a Claude Project? A saved workspace inside Claude that already knows your company. You load it once with your context and your instructions, and every chat you start inside it be…
- What is gbrain? A memory layer for your AI agent, open-sourced by the CEO of Y Combinator. It is the fix for the thing that quietly breaks every agent: it forgets.
- What is MCP? The Model Context Protocol. The universal plug that lets any AI app connect to any tool or data source. Think USB-C for agents: one port, and everything that sp…
- What is RAG? Retrieval-augmented generation. The trick that turns an AI that knows the internet into an AI that knows your company. Every "chat with your docs" tool you have…
- What is the AskUserQuestion tool? The built-in tool Claude Code uses to stop mid-task and ask you a quick multiple-choice question instead of guessing. The closest thing the terminal has to a ch…
- What is vibe coding? Describing software in plain English and letting an AI write it, without ever reading the code. The fastest way a non-technical CEO can get a working tool. Also…
- Why AskUserQuestion is one of the best features in Claude Code (and totally underrated) Nobody puts it on the highlight reel. For a CEO who can't read the code, it might be the single most valuable thing the tool does.
- Codex vs Claude Code I run Claude Code every day. Codex is the coding agent your team is arguing about, and there is a good chance you already pay for it without knowing. Here is ho…
- What is a coding agent? The category that Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor all belong to. Not an AI that talks about code. One that reads your files, edits them, runs them, and checks it…
- What is agentskills.io? The open standard that makes the skills you build portable. Write a capability once, and run it on whatever tool you use next.
- What is Codex? OpenAI's coding agent. The same idea as Claude Code, wearing an OpenAI badge, and probably already bundled in the ChatGPT plan you pay for every month.
- Book ideas from meetings: the source material is already being generated If you've ever thought about writing a book, this workflow makes it tractable. Claude organizes meeting moments against your book outline. Every week.
- Content ideas from meetings: never run out of things to write again Claude scans your transcripts for stories, anecdotes, customer truths, and sharp observations. Output is a running ideas file you mine for LinkedIn, articles, p…
- CRM enrichment from calls: every call updates your CRM for you Every customer call auto-populates your CRM with the people, the priorities, the personal context, and the real next step. Your sales team opens a record that's…
- Customer call to follow-up or spec: two outcomes from every call End a customer call, run one prompt against the transcript, and get back either a draft follow-up email in your voice or a draft product spec for your team.
- Your leadership doctrine: the principles you already use, captured A doc that grows over time, capturing the principles, metaphors, and frameworks you actually use in meetings. The seed manuscript of how you lead, pulled from h…
- Make a skill in Claude Code Build one skill. Run it Friday. Watch your weekly review write itself.
- Meeting effectiveness review: reclaim four hours a week Weekly review of which meetings produced decisions, which produced noise, and which could be cut.
- Self-coaching from meetings: where am I actually avoiding hard things Ask Claude where you've been ducking confrontation, dominating airtime, or rushing past concerns. Specific moments. Named patterns. Better alternatives. All gro…
- Set up your CLAUDE.md file Open a folder. Paste a template. Replace six placeholders. Test that it works. Done.
- Terminal tricks for Claude Code Top ten, then everything else. Print the cheat sheet when you're done.
- Team todos from meetings: stop chasing follow-up Action items from every meeting land in each owner's Slack DM minutes later. They have their list. You stop chasing.
- What is a cloud VM? A computer you rent that lives in someone else's data center. Always on. Accessible from anywhere. Where you run an agent when you do not want to keep your lapt…
- What is a markdown file? A text file with a tiny bit of formatting. The format every AI tool reads natively, which is why my whole AI stack is built on it.
- What is a SQLite database? A whole database that lives in a single file on your computer. No server. No admin. No login. The thing most agent [harnesses](/articles/what-is-a-harness) use …
- Pre-meeting brief: walk into every meeting already prepared A brief lands on your phone before every meeting. You walk in already knowing where you left things, what's outstanding, and what to lead with.
- What are skills in Claude Code? The folder that turns a workflow you ran once into a capability Claude executes on command, forever.
- What is a harness? The layer that allows your language model to get real work done. The thing that turns a chatbot into an operator that gets smarter every day.
- What is a slash command? A prompt you save once and invoke from any Claude Code session by typing `/name`. The lightest-weight way to ship a skill.
- Automated pipeline hygiene: stay on top of every deal without a pipeline review A Claude Code agent reads every customer transcript from the prior day, cross-references it with your CRM, and surfaces deal moves, risk signals, and next-step …
- The commitment ledger: every promise you made (or made to you) tracked A running file that captures every commitment you made and every commitment people made to you. Refreshed weekly from your meeting transcripts. Walk into every …
- Weekly team and investor updates, generated from your meetings Two drafts every Friday morning. One team-facing, one investor-facing. Both pulled from the week's meeting record. You edit for tone and ship.
- Ask your meeting history anything: the CEO's query layer Open Claude. Point it at your meeting library. Ask any question in plain English. Get answers in thirty seconds, with citations.
- Persistent memory across Claude Code sessions Index your notes, decisions, and past work into a local search engine. Pull the relevant pieces into any Claude Code session with one command: `/recall`.
- Run autonomous workflows 24/7 with Claude Code Routines Set one recurring task to run on Anthropic's servers, with your laptop closed.
- Granola → markdown: the foundation everyone's missing Export every meeting to [markdown](/articles/what-is-a-markdown-file). Make it searchable in Claude. Unlock six workflows on top of it.
- OpenCLAW vs Hermes I run [OpenCLAW][1]. [Hermes][2] is the open-source [harness][6] most CEOs are asking me about. Here is how the two differ, what each one is good at, and the on…
- What is a CLAUDE.md file? The markdown file Claude reads on startup so it stops asking "what business are we in?" every time you open it.
- What is a cron? The thing that makes your agent wake up on its own and do things for you without you having to be there to ask.
- What is Hermes? The open-source agent harness from Nous Research. Mobile-first. Multi-model. The main alternative to the OpenCLAW harness I run.
- What is OpenCLAW? It’s a [harness][8] (I’ll explain). In short, it’s the thing that turns an LLM into an operator that gets sharper every day.\ It is 6:47 AM on a Tuesday. My Ope…
All articles & long reads
- The CEO's case for making AI argue with itself before it answers you A single AI answer is one opinion. A workflow is a panel that argues it out and hands you only what survived.
- 10 ways a CEO can put AI to work this week Three of every four professionals already let an AI notetaker sit in their meetings. You probably pay for ChatGPT or Claude and use it the way you'd use a smart…
- From chat tabs to a real system: the CEO's 90-day AI roadmap Twelve open chat tabs is not an AI strategy. This is the staged path from ad-hoc prompting to connected, scheduled workflows that run parts of your business, ma…
- The five AI workflows every CEO should install first Most CEOs "use AI" by typing into a chat box and getting an answer. The real leverage is in a handful of workflows that run on your own work, in your own contex…
- Forget who's winning the harness wars. Pick one and start. Hermes had a loud week and the timelines lit up. For a CEO, the winner of that fight matters far less than the fact that you still have not picked a side.
- Hand your agent a half-day of work and walk away Most CEOs hand an AI a five-minute task and then hover over it. The operators getting real leverage hand it half a day of work, set one checkpoint, and go to a …
- Build the second brain before you build the agent Everyone wants the agent. The ones that actually earn their keep are standing on a pile of your decisions, meetings, and notes. Build the pile first, and the ag…
- As a CEO, where should we start with AI, and what are the highest-value use cases? Most CEOs start in the most expensive place: a top-down strategy, an AI committee, a chatbot bolted onto the website. The highest-value move is smaller, closer …
- Why most AI agents fall apart in real work (and how to fix it) The agent that nailed your demo is not getting dumber. It's running out of context. The fix is not a smarter model; it's setting the agent up to succeed.
- The autonomous, self-improving company Four feedback loops that turn a company from a system you operate into a system that gets sharper at the work on its own. One of mine is running clean today. Th…
- Why CEOs should use Claude Code in the terminal From chat tabs that forget your business to a folder that knows it. Four primitives that turn Claude into the leverage layer of your week.
- Granola for CEOs: the highest-ROI AI install of 2026 Five minutes to install. Thirty minutes to wire up the pipeline. Twelve workflows running on top of every meeting you'll have for the next year.
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