MemberPress AI Academy
Tracks
The courses grouped by what you want to do. Start anywhere; each track begins with its most approachable course.
Claude Desktop Get more out of every chat
Projects, files and skills for the work you already do in chat.
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beginner
Claude Desktop Fundamentals
Set up Claude Desktop, attach files, build Projects and Skills, and turn ad-hoc chats into a repeatable workflow.
Seth ShoultesStart Claude Desktop Fundamentals → -
intermediate
Projects and Skills — Reusable Claude
Build Projects with stable system prompts. Write Skills as portable procedures. Share both with your team.
Seth ShoultesStart Projects and Skills — Reusable Claude →
Claude Code Pair-programming in your terminal
Run Claude in your terminal, work in a real codebase, and hand work to agents.
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advanced
Claude Code Agents — Sub-Agents, Tools, and MCP
Sub-agents, the tool-use primitive, MCP servers, and a sub-agent that ships PRs end-to-end.
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intermediate
Claude Code — Getting Started
Install Claude Code, run your first task, read the diff, and learn when to interrupt and when to let it run.
Seth ShoultesStart Claude Code — Getting Started →
Prompt Engineering Prompts that hold up
From the structure of a good prompt to chains, evals and prompts in production.
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beginner
Prompt Engineering 101
Nineteen lessons of structure, specificity, examples, and chained prompts.
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advanced
Real-World Prompts — Chains, Evals, and Production
Prompt chains, evals, version control, and rolling back a bad prompt without breaking production.
Building with the API Apps, agents and tool use
API fundamentals, tool use, MCP and agents, ready to ship.
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intermediate
Agent-Discoverable Surfaces
Make your site, data, and tools discoverable by AI agents. MCP for assistants like Claude, Custom GPTs for ChatGPT, and OpenAPI as the schema that ties them together.
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intermediate
Anthropic API Fundamentals
Get an API key, send your first request, handle errors and rate limits, and ship a real Claude integration.
Seth ShoultesStart Anthropic API Fundamentals → -
advanced
Tool Use — From Calculator to Agent
From calculator-as-a-tool to a small agent — define tool schemas, handle tool-use loops, instrument for production.
Seth ShoultesStart Tool Use — From Calculator to Agent →
Workflow Procedures anyone can run
Write down how the work is done, so a person or an agent can follow it.
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intermediate
Skills as Standard Operating Procedures
Treat skill files as factory SOPs — institutional memory written down so anyone, human or agent, can run the procedure.
Seth ShoultesStart Skills as Standard Operating Procedures →
Strategy How to shape AI helpers
What each helper should do, and where the boundaries go.
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advanced
The Great Minds Constellation
How to split AI helpers into small plugins that each do one job well, and why one do-everything assistant does each job worse.
Seth ShoultesStart The Great Minds Constellation →