Chapter 6: Everyday Workflows — Build Real Things¶

This chapter applies the foundations and context work to repeatable workflows: driving sessions with controls, taking an idea to a reviewable site, debugging systematically, and applying the same loop to writing, research, planning, and administration.

This is also where your Lesson 1.4 build list stops being a list.

What you will learn

Drive sessions with the slash commands and shortcuts that pros lean on.
Run the idea-to-live-site workflow end to end, repeatably.
Debug systematically: reproduce, isolate, fix, prove — with the agent doing the legwork.
Apply agentic workflows to non-code work: documents, research, planning.
Build your first true automation — work that happens without you.

Builder principle

Tools become skills through repetition on real work. This chapter is deliberately repetitive — that's the design.

Watch with this chapter

Mastering Claude Code in 30 Minutes — final assigned viewing; by now you should be nodding along, not taking notes.
How I use LLMs — Karpathy. Rewatch the daily-workflow segments with your new eyes.

Real talk¶

Somewhere in this chapter, it clicks. Not "I understand agents" — that happened chapters ago. This click is quieter and bigger: "oh, this is just how I work now." The moment you catch yourself reaching for a session the way you reach for a browser tab — that's the shift the whole course was built to cause. It tends to happen mid-chapter-6. Watch for it.

Lessons in this chapter¶

Chapter checkpoint¶

Complete Chapter 6: Reusable real-work workflow, save the evidence, then score your first attempt with the shared rubric.