The full class session — Frank's reverse-markdown question, Delaina's series mapping with Gemini, Jamie's HOBAN voice quest, Sonnet vs Opus model selection, the basement jar analogy for spreadsheets, the boundary pattern (NotebookLM-style fences), the live Helm walkthrough, Hermie's full website rebuild story, Anne's video filmmaking work, and Frank's emergence-vs-recurrence frame.
The 12 most important things from The Dojo, on one page. Goblins love boundaries. You are the tallest person in the room. Fabrication is not malice — it's enthusiasm. Sonnet is your workhorse, Opus is the symphony. Build the Master Command Center one widget at a time. Plus the homework checklist for Lab Week 8.
The full practice mapped vertically. Level 1: Observation — study before you scold. Level 2: Orchestration — always the tallest person in the room. Level 3: Translation — redirect to where the truth lives. The four-step path you can put on a postcard, plus why [AI]Kido matters more in automation, not less.
When to use a spreadsheet, when to use a document, and when to use both. The basement jar analogy makes it stick. Plus: how to use spreadsheets WITHOUT having to live in them (hint — connect via MCP and let Claude do the formatting), the hybrid pattern, and why structured data is the cure for fabrication.
Goblins love fences. NotebookLM does it brilliantly — confining its references to ONLY what you give it. This guide shows how to bake that same boundary into ANY project.md so Claude only uses YOUR resources, never the broader internet. Includes Jamie's verification trick, Frank's local-models perspective, and the homework to test your fence.
The full blueprint for what RJ demoed live in class. What widgets actually live on the Helm (Big Mission, Tasks, Bugs, Bot Strategy, AEO, Social Beacons, Spiral). The build philosophy — one widget at a time. The tech stack. How to replace paid tools by building your own. What to bring to Lab Week 8 to start sketching YOUR command center.
Replace Luma (or Calendly Events, or Eventbrite) with your own calendar that matches YOUR brand and saves $600-840/year. Includes the build prompt to paste into Claude, the recommended stack, the high-level steps, Hermie's full case study (he built his + migrated his entire web hosting in one hour), and the cost comparison.
From character spreadsheet → AI prompt → published page. Jamie's homework path. Step 1: load Claude with your existing art and have it analyze your style. Step 2: store the style in a spreadsheet. Step 3: build a brain for each character. Step 4: write panel scripts. Step 5: Claude generates prompts. Step 6: image gen tools render. Includes the 30-minute test to know if this pipeline will work for YOU.
Drop this directly into your project.md to fence Claude into ONLY your resources — no internet drift, no fabrication, no adjacent topics. Includes Jamie's verification trick (embed a check phrase, ask Claude to repeat it). Edit the brackets for your project, paste, save, test.
Build a complete brain for any character in two parts — a voice document (.md file) AND a structured spreadsheet row. Works for fictional characters, client personas, audience profiles, or anyone you want Claude to embody or reference accurately. Claude walks you through the whole interview, then outputs both artifacts ready to save.