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First agentic task with approvals
Part 2 walks one low-risk agentic task with approvals: owned notes into a short status deck, tight tool access, and human review before anything leaves your desk. First Work run on purpose, not by accident.
Memory and context: what sticks, what resets
Part 5 of the Claude Code tutorial. Chat resets with /clear or a new session, CLAUDE.md reloads every time, auto memory can…
Notebooks vs scripts for teammates
Notebooks help you explore. Scripts help you repeat. Learn when to stay in a notebook, when to graduate to a .py file,…
What Work mode is for
Work mode is the agent for multi-step office jobs: files, apps, decks, sheets, and docs you still review. Part 1 of the…
Skills: what they are, how to add and use
Part 4 of the Claude Code tutorial. Skills are on-demand playbooks in SKILL.md files. Add them under .claude/skills or ~/.claude/skills, invoke with…



