CLAUDE AI MASTERY: Learn Agentic AI, Prompt Engineering, and Real Automation in a Weekend - Softcover

Ryan, Connor ; Sharma, Arjun Rajesh

9798191810249: CLAUDE AI MASTERY: Learn Agentic AI, Prompt Engineering, and Real Automation in a Weekend

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Publisher: Independently published, 2026

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Claude AI Mastery is a structured, two-day course in that method. It moves from the fundamentals of how Claude works and how to prompt it precisely, through to configuring it for repeatable use and building a functioning automation. The material is organized around durable skills rather than interface details, since menus and features change but the underlying logic of clear instruction, context management, and delegation does not. No coding background is required.

Inside this book, you'll learn how to:

Apply the three levers that most affect output quality — clarity, context, and constraints — when writing a prompt
Set up Projects as persistent workspaces so Claude retains relevant context and instructions across sessions
Produce documents, spreadsheets, slides, and code as direct deliverables using Artifacts
Determine when to rely on Claude's existing knowledge, when to have it search the web, and how to verify its output before acting on it
Distinguish agentic behavior from simple question-answering, and establish clear boundaries for what Claude should do autonomously versus what requires review
Connect Claude to everyday tools — Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slack, Notion, GitHub — via MCP, and diagnose issues when a connection or workflow doesn't behave as expected

Along the way, you'll build:

A configured Claude workspace, with Projects, instructions, and reference files set up for your own work
A custom Skill that directs Claude to complete one of your recurring tasks the same way each time
A complete automated workflow, built end to end using a real task from your own job or business

This book is intended for freelancers, small business owners, students, marketers, and operations staff who spend a meaningful part of their week on repetitive knowledge work — writing, organizing, researching, formatting, following up — and want a working method for delegating it. It assumes no prior coding or AI experience and does not attempt to cover the Claude API in depth or serve as a computer science text; readers with those needs are better served by Anthropic's developer documentation. Each chapter follows the same format: a concept explained concisely, a realistic example, and a hands-on exercise completed in the reader's own Claude account.

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