RainyRoot/claude-guide

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A beginner-friendly guide to actually using Claude Chat, Claude Code, skills, subagents, and real project workflows.

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# claude-guide

A practical guide to using Claude properly. Covers the chat app, Claude Code, how to pick a model, skills, subagents, project setup and a bunch of other things that took me a while to figure out.

Written for people who know how to use a computer and GitHub but are new to Claude specifically.

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## what's in here

### just want to chat

- [01 Overview](docs/01-overview/index.md) what Claude is and which tool to use for what
- [02 Choosing a model](docs/02-models/index.md) Opus vs Sonnet vs Haiku vs Fable, when to use which
- [03 The chat app](docs/03-chat-app/index.md) claude.ai, Projects, memory, Artifacts, web search

### want to code with AI

- [04 Claude Code](docs/04-claude-code/index.md) install, first session, how the agent loop works
  - [Plan mode and permissions](docs/04-claude-code/plan-and-permissions.md)

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