Master the 7 Claude skills that snap together into one unstoppable workflow
Master the 7 composable Claude skills that snap together into one powerful two-tier workflow — built for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and Claude Cowork. Go from prompt-curious to genuinely productive, fast.
"I'd rather give you one workflow you'll use every day than ten techniques you'll forget by Friday."— Becky Auer
What you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how all 7 Claude skills are scoped and why each one exists in the stack
- Compose multiple skills into a single end-to-end workflow without redundancy or conflict
- Apply Tier 1 foundational skills confidently inside Claude Desktop and Claude Cowork
- Unlock Tier 2 advanced skills inside Claude Code for developer-grade automation tasks
- Diagnose and debug skill-composition issues when a workflow produces unexpected output
- Ship a personal two-tier Claude workflow tailored to your own daily work in under an hour
How it works
A school that adapts to you
This isn't a set of static videos. Every lesson is generated live and tuned to where you actually are.
We learn your level
A quick placement check tailors your starting point so you're never bored or lost.
Lessons adapt as you go
Each lesson is written for your pace and your goal, adjusting as your skills grow.
Your AI coach keeps you moving
Checkpoints, feedback, and gentle nudges turn progress into a real result.
The curriculum
What's inside your school
7 modules · 19 lessons
The Claude Skills Stack: Why 7, Why Two Tiers
Establishes the mental model every learner needs before touching a single skill. Covers what a Claude skill actually is at a structural level, how all 7 fit together as a coherent system, and the deliberate reasoning behind the two-tier split. Without this module, later composition work lacks a conceptual anchor.
- 1.1Anatomy of a Claude SkillIncluded
- 1.2Mapping All 7 Skills and Their RolesIncluded
- 1.3Why Two Tiers: Foundational vs. Developer-GradeIncluded
Environment Setup and Skill Installation
A deliberately inserted prerequisite module that was missing from the draft. Learners cannot meaningfully practice Tier 1 or Tier 2 skills without a working environment. This module ensures every learner has Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code correctly configured and has verified that all 7 skills from the pack are installed and callable — before any hands-on skill practice begins.
- 2.1Setting Up Claude Desktop and Claude CoworkIncluded
- 2.2Setting Up Claude Code and Installing All 7 SkillsIncluded
Tier 1 Foundations: Skills 1–4 in Claude Desktop and Cowork
Deep-dives into the four foundational skills learners will use most frequently in everyday non-developer contexts. Each lesson moves from concept to isolated practice to mini-workflow, ensuring learners can operate each skill confidently on its own before composition begins. Sequenced input → processing → output to mirror the data flow learners will later connect end-to-end.
- 3.1Skill 1 in Practice: Structured Input CaptureIncluded
- 3.2Skills 2 & 3 in Practice: Processing and TransformationIncluded
- 3.3Skill 4 in Practice: Output Formatting and DeliveryIncluded
Tier 2 Unlocked: Skills 5–7 Inside Claude Code
Introduces the three developer-grade skills available exclusively in Claude Code. Focuses on the capabilities that require a live execution environment — automated context loading, programmatic execution, and loop-back feedback cycles. Each lesson pairs the skill's unique power with its unique risks, and all practice happens inside the verified Claude Code environment from the setup module.
- 4.1Skill 5 in Practice: Automated Context LoadingIncluded
- 4.2Skills 6 & 7 in Practice: Execution and Loop-BackIncluded
Composition: Snapping All 7 Skills Into One Workflow
The integration module where all prior learning converges. Learners move from operating skills in isolation to deliberately designing, wiring, and running a complete seven-skill workflow. Sequenced after both tier modules so every skill is already understood before it is composed. The module treats composition as a design discipline — not just connecting pipes, but making intentional choices about data contracts, handoff points, and flow control.
- 5.1Designing the Composition MapIncluded
- 5.2Wiring Tier 1 to Tier 2: The Handoff ProtocolIncluded
- 5.3Full Workflow Run: End-to-End ExecutionIncluded
Diagnosis and Debugging: When Composition Breaks
Addresses the inevitable reality that composed workflows fail in non-obvious ways. Deliberately placed after the first full end-to-end run so learners debug from experience, not theory. Builds a systematic debugging practice — reading signals, isolating the faulty skill, applying a fix, and then hardening the workflow so the same failure cannot recur.
- 6.1Reading Failure Signals in a Composed WorkflowIncluded
- 6.2Isolating and Fixing Skill-Level BugsIncluded
- 6.3Hardening Your Workflow Against Common FailuresIncluded
Ship It: Your Personal Two-Tier Claude Workflow
The capstone module where learners apply everything to their own real daily work context and ship a hardened, documented, personally relevant two-tier workflow within the 60-minute target. Sequenced last because it requires the full stack of prior skills — concept, environment, isolated skill practice, composition, and debugging. The evolving-over-time lesson ensures learners leave with a growth path, not just a finished artifact.
- 7.1Personalizing the Workflow to Your Daily WorkIncluded
- 7.2Documentation, Handoff, and the 60-Minute Ship TargetIncluded
- 7.3Evolving Your Workflow: Adding Skills and Adapting Over TimeIncluded
Who it's for
Is this you?
Full-Stack Developers
You want to move beyond one-off Claude prompts and wire Skills 5–7 into real, looping Claude Code automation pipelines you can actually ship.
Knowledge Workers
You live in Claude Desktop and Cowork daily and want to stop reinventing the wheel — the Tier 1 skill stack turns your best prompts into repeatable, structured workflows.
Productivity Power Users
You've maxed out what ad-hoc prompting can do and you're ready for a composable system that runs the same way every single time.
Technical Product Managers
You need to understand the two-tier Claude architecture well enough to spec, review, and debug AI-assisted workflows your team is building around it.
Indie Hackers & Solopreneurs
You're a one-person operation and you need Claude doing repeatable, reliable work — the 60-minute ship target in Module 7 is built exactly for your pace.
DevOps & Automation Engineers
You think in pipelines and handoff protocols — the Tier 1-to-Tier 2 composition map and the debugging module will feel like home, applied to Claude's ecosystem.
Questions
Frequently asked
Your teacher
A note from your teacher
Becky Auer
If you're reading this, I'm going to guess something about where you are right now: you've been using Claude for a while, you're genuinely impressed by what it can do one prompt at a time, and you have this nagging feeling that you're barely scratching the surface. You've seen people talk about "AI workflows" and "automation pipelines" and it sounds powerful — but every tutorial you find either talks down to you or skips three steps and assumes you already know the rest.
That gap is exactly why I built Claude Skills Lab.
I didn't want to teach another "10 prompting tips" course. I wanted to build something that respects your intelligence, matches the actual tools you're working in — Claude Desktop, Claude Cowork, Claude Code — and gives you a framework that holds together. That's the 7-skill, two-tier stack. It's not arbitrary. Every skill has a specific role. Every tier has a reason for existing. And when you learn how they compose, something clicks: you stop improvising and start engineering.
The course is structured the way I'd pair-program with a sharp colleague. We set up the environment properly first (no skipping that — a shaky foundation causes 80% of the debugging pain we see later). Then we work each skill in context, in the environment where it actually lives. Then we compose. Then we break things on purpose and fix them. And then you build your own workflow and ship it — in under an hour, because by that point you know exactly what you're doing.
The debugging module is the one I'm most proud of. Anyone can show you a workflow running perfectly in a demo. What I want you to have is the ability to look at broken output, trace it back to the skill that caused it, fix it cleanly, and harden the pipeline so it doesn't happen again. That's the difference between a one-time demo and a system you actually trust.
You're not here to learn about AI. You're here to build something you'll use every day. Let's go build it.
— Becky Auer
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