Claude and Claude Code: projects, skills and agents

Dan Martell organizes this Claude guide into six levels, starting with basic chat and ending with agent orchestration. His first suggestions are to ask Claude to interview you before answering and to check its own work.

For repeatable tasks, he recommends creating projects by role or initiative. He adds a master prompt describing his work, supporting documents and examples, then puts workflow instructions in the project's custom instructions. His YouTube planning example uses voice and branding documents alongside previous scripts.

The discussion then covers connectors, interactive artifacts and Claude in Chrome. Martell describes using connected email, calendars and Slack for company updates. He turns recurring workflows into skills and describes a scheduled Cowork task that prepares his next day's briefing at 8 p.m.

Claude Code is the coding assistant in the later sections. Martell discusses recurring server jobs, disposable tools and applications. He recommends plan mode before code generation and describes remote control through the Claude phone app.

The final section outlines an AI agent hierarchy with an orchestrator, specialized agents and Telegram access. Martell says his optional Apex platform uses Claude as its main agent model, and says Claude can be used without Apex. His autonomy and security claims are personal accounts; the guide does not establish local inference or offline operation.