Tonight we stop talking about Claude Code and actually use it. Install, set up, and start building with the exact workflow I use to run my entire business — live, together, step by step.
Tuesday night we kicked off with the AI Build Session — Claude in the browser, Cowork on the desktop. Tonight we go to the machine.
The full Week 2 kickoff replay, bonus video, and catchup slides are all here: learn.lukemaguire.ai/day3-replay/ — access code AIGENT007
No theory. Everything we do is live, with me, on screen, together. Type YES in chat if you're ready to build.
Here's the mental shift that makes everything else tonight make sense.
Browser Claude is a conversation. It's a very smart chatbot, but it lives inside a window and can't touch your files, your tools, or your actual business. When the tab closes, it's gone.
Cowork is a personal assistant. It lives on your desktop and handles tasks for you in the background.
Claude Code is a full development team that lives on your machine. It reads your files. It writes real code. It runs commands. It deploys to the internet. It connects to your Stripe, your Gmail, your database. And it remembers everything across every session.
Every single thing I'm about to show you only works because Claude Code lives on your machine. It's the foundation. Once this is set up properly, everything we cover the rest of the week builds on top of it.
If you already installed it before tonight — great, skip ahead. If not, this is all you need.
npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-codeclaude and hit enter to launch itIf you see the Claude Code welcome screen, you're ready. Don't worry about what anything means yet — we're going to set up the 5 foundations together next.
Most people install Claude Code, skip these, and wonder why it feels underwhelming. Here are the 5 moves I wish someone had shown me on day one.
Without these, Claude Code is a smart terminal. With these, it's a full development team. Let's set them up together, one at a time.
Imagine you hired a personal assistant today. Super smart, best schools — but they know nothing about you, your business, or how you like things done. Every morning you'd have to re-explain everything from scratch. That's Claude out of the box.
CLAUDE.md is the fix. It's a simple text file you write ONCE that tells Claude everything about you. Your business, your voice, your tools, your non-negotiables. Claude reads it before every single conversation.
Without this file, you waste 10 minutes per session re-explaining yourself. With it, every conversation starts with Claude already knowing who you are. This alone 5x's your results.
mkdir -p ~/.claude && nano ~/.claude/CLAUDE.mdCtrl+O then Enter, then exit: Ctrl+XClaude has 3 different models, and each is like a different employee:
👩🏫 Opus 4.6 — your senior architect. Smartest. Best for complex builds. Slower, more expensive.
👨💻 Sonnet 4.6 — your main builder. Fast, smart, handles 95% of daily work. My default.
👱 Haiku 4.5 — your intern. Lightning fast, cheap, great for quick lookups and formatting.
Using the right model for the job saves you time AND money. Opus for everything burns tokens. Haiku for everything drops quality. The trick is switching between them based on what you're doing.
/modelSonnet for daily work. Opus for builds. Haiku for tiny tasks. You'll find your own rhythm in a week.
MCP stands for Model Context Protocol. In plain English: it's how Claude talks to your other tools. Your Stripe. Your Gmail. Your Google Calendar. Your Figma. Your Canva. Your database.
Without MCP, Claude is trapped in the conversation window. With MCP, Claude can read your revenue, send emails, book meetings, pull designs, deploy sites — all while you're still talking to it.
I used to have 15 browser tabs open all day. Now I have ONE window — Claude Code — and I ask it everything. "Show me my Stripe revenue. Draft 10 emails. Book a focus block tomorrow." One prompt, everything answered.
/mcp — this shows what's connectedStripe, PayPal, Gmail, Slack, Figma, Canva, Cloudflare, Supabase, Notion, Linear, GitHub, Netlify, Vercel — and more every week. Every connection is another tool Claude can operate for you.
Right now, every time you close a Claude session, it forgets everything. You could have an amazing 2-hour conversation, come back tomorrow, and Claude has no memory of any of it.
Claude-mem is the fix. It's a free plugin that gives Claude a permanent memory across every single session. Once installed, Claude remembers every decision, every win, every preference — forever.
Before claude-mem I was wasting 20 minutes every morning catching Claude up on what we were doing. Now I open it and it already knows. It's the difference between working with a temp and working with a long-term partner.
/plugin install claude-memThink of "skills" like apps for your iPhone. Your phone does a lot out of the box, but each app you install gives it a new superpower. Claude works the same way.
Stitch is a skill from Google Labs that turns Claude into a professional UI designer. You describe a web page or app interface in plain English, and Stitch generates production-grade designs in seconds. Not wireframes. Not sketches. Real, polished, ready-to-launch interfaces.
Hiring a designer costs $500–$3,000 per page and takes days. With Stitch, Claude generates premium designs in 30 seconds. For anyone who's ever said "I have ideas but I can't design," this changes everything.
github.com/google-labs-code/stitch-skills/skill install stitchThe default terminal on Mac or Windows is UGLY. Black screen, white text, 1990s vibes. When I first opened it, I thought "absolutely not." It scared me off Claude Code for weeks.
Warp is the fix. It's a free terminal built for humans, not engineers. Beautiful interface. AI built in. Commands grouped into clean blocks instead of walls of text. Once you use it, you'll never go back.
Warp has AI built directly into the command bar. If you forget a command, just describe what you want in plain English and Warp writes it for you. You never need to memorise terminal commands again.
warp.dev and download the free app (Mac, Windows, Linux)claudeYou're not locked into Claude. Inside Claude Code, you can tell Claude to call OTHER AI models — Gemini, GPT, Grok, whatever you need. Claude becomes the conductor of an orchestra.
Why? Because sometimes Gemini is better at certain things (like real-time web search). Instead of switching tools, Claude reaches out to Gemini, gets the answer, and blends it into your conversation.
npm install -g @google/gemini-cligemini auth loginClaude runs the Gemini command, pipes the result back, and blends it into your conversation. This is how you turn Claude Code into a multi-model command center.
Enough setup. Let's build. Someone in the chat — drop a business niche. First one wins. We're building it LIVE.
From ONE prompt, Claude Code will build the audience's picked niche:
✅ A mobile-first landing page (using Stitch)
✅ A 5-question lead-qualification quiz
✅ A 5-email welcome sequence
✅ An analytics dashboard mockup
✅ Deployed live to Netlify with a real URL
This is what my normal weekday looks like. One prompt, one build, live URL, done. Now imagine doing this every day for your own business or for clients.
Everything you just saw — Claude Code, the CLAUDE.md file, MCPs, claude-mem, Stitch, Warp, multi-model, the live build — you can absolutely do all of this yourself. Every tool I showed you is free.
But here's what I didn't tell you. It took me 6 months to find all this. To test it. To break it. To figure out which skills were worth installing. Which MCPs. How my CLAUDE.md should be structured. Which plugins play nice. Six months of trial and error. Probably $2,000+ in subscriptions along the way.
And I'm still learning new things every week.
So I built something for you. Something that skips the 6 months and puts my entire setup on your machine in 10 minutes.
Stop using Claude. Start WEARING it. My entire Claude Code install, copied onto your machine in 10 minutes.
Stay on the latest version as I add new skills, agents, and workflows. 2 live webinars/month, weekly community sessions, quarterly "Mark II / III / IV" releases. Cancel anytime, keep your Suit forever.
Your $997 price is locked for life. Future cohorts pay more. Plus — I'll personally walk you through the install live on Saturday 11am ET. Zoom call, just me and founding operators, ask me anything.
Set yourself up so you're ready for tomorrow's finale.
I've got one more surprise planned that I haven't told anyone about yet. Friday is going to be the one you remember. See you there. 💚