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explainx.ai workshop resource

Claude for Work

The complete two-session workshop handbook with ExplainX practice tools, copyable prompts, and curated post-workshop reading.

2 live sessions4 practice tools15 copyable prompts

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Session 1

Foundations, Artifacts, and Projects

Start with the mechanics behind generative AI, then turn instructions and source files into useful Artifacts and repeatable Claude Projects.

Basics

Use these interactive tools to revisit generative AI, tokens, context windows, and the prompt structure covered in class.

Generative AI practice toolPractice the foundations of generative AI through an interactive explainx.ai exercise.Token explainerSee how AI models break text into tokens and why token count matters.Context window toolExplore how much information a model can hold and use in one conversation.Prompt engineering: FROG in a BowlPractice a memorable structure for writing clearer prompts.

Artifacts

Copy these prompts into Claude. For the report workflow, attach the sample CSV before sending the follow-up prompt.

Build a beach-themed snake game

You are a html game developer with 5 years of experience, i want you to help me build a snake game which is essentially a game where snake eats feed and grows, do this in html, should be super simple and theme to be beach-like, create an artifact.

Create a visual report from a CSV

You are a data analyst, your job is to help me create a report, basis attached csv, choose important metrics to show and use python / relevant libraries to create these visualisations. Create artifact.

CSV report follow-up

Use this attached one and create a simple report artifact

Claude Projects

Use these as Project Instructions, then add the supporting files mentioned in each prompt to the Project knowledge base.

X post ghostwriter Project

You are a x post ghost writer, your job is to help me create x posts that go viral. Every day when i tell you to share posts, i want you to first research on what needs to be posted, i need 1 viral topic in ai / tech / generative ai for today's date. Once you finalize i want you to research what people are saying around this topic and find popular opinion. Following the best guidelines of how x posts are written, i want you to draft the post. This should also sound like me, so crisp and direct, maybe some fun, but follow the best post writing practices. Share the final posts (along with threads if applicable) so i can copy and paste.

Job-hunting agent Project

You are an expert job hunter, your goal is to help me land interviews at my dream companies, i will share the company name with you. Basis the name, i want you to look up responsible people who might help me land an interview, these could be HR, Founders, VPs anyone who may be hiring or may point me to the right direction. Using the company's website, and their email format, help me create 2-3 emails that might likely help me correctly reach out to the person you've found - look up other pages that might indicate what the email format of that company might be My CV is added in the project resources, use that as reference. Basis company, my CV help me create a crisp, direct customised email that i can send to this person.

Session 2

Skills, Connectors, Design, and Cowork

Turn good prompts into reusable skills, connect Claude to work tools, create visual deliverables, and delegate practical computer tasks safely.

Skills

Run these in order: begin with Skill Creator, provide the X-writing workflow, then finalize and save the result.

Start with Skill Creator

Let's create a skill together using your skill-creator skill. First ask me what the skill should do.

Define the X ghostwriter skill

You are a X Ghost writer, your goal is to write engaging x posts. I want you to create a skill for writing x posts. This should do the following workflow everytime we trigger the skill:

Take content user shared

Research the internet to understand what's trending around the topic and find viral opportunities to talk about

Draft your X Post, follow the x post writing guidelines, meaning add a single post or add threads where relevant

Create a section that can i copy and paste on x to add my post.

Make sure that these are not too long, and the posts that are you write are direct, and interactive, and practical.

Finalize and save the skill

Can you make draft final and save the skills

Connectors

These examples combine read and write actions. Review the proposed changes before Claude creates tickets or modifies a saved skill.

Jira: review completed work and create a ticket

Using the JIRA connector, can you fetch all tickets completed last week by Rahul and also, add a new ticket to improve design for billing page on explainx dashboard.

Canva: add an Instagram step to the skill

I've connected canva, can you go ahead and help me add a new step to this skill? where we can now generate a single page post for instagram using canva connector around the same topic.

Canva: create a Basics of AI carousel

Can you use canva connector in order to add a instagram post on Basics of AI? 3 cards

Claude Design

Attach the logo, website screenshot, and pathway information before asking Claude to build the deck.

Create a branded website slide deck

Make a slide deck about xyz website

I've attached logo, website screenshot for branding and brand design and info about current aval pathways.

Claude Cowork

Be explicit about protected files and the permitted destination. Review the proposed moves before allowing the cleanup.

Organize the desktop without moving a protected file

Can you help me organize my desktop, it's messy. Don't move this file:
/Users/[dummy_user]/Desktop/circle-mask.jpg
feel free to move other files as a part of this cleanup but not away from desktop in the desktop itself.

Move the Expo app folder too

'/Users/[dummy_user]/Desktop/Expo App Icon & Splash v2 (Community) (Community)'
move this to relevant folder as well

Scheduled tasks

Start with discovery instead of immediately creating an automation, so the task and schedule are confirmed first.

Discover and set up a scheduled task

I want to set up a scheduled task. Briefly explain how scheduled tasks work in Cowork, then ask me a few questions to figure out what I’d like Claude to do and when it should run.

After the workshop

Keep building after class

These explainx.ai guides directly extend the concepts and workflows covered across both sessions, from model basics to Projects, Skills, Connectors, Artifacts, and Cowork safety.

What are tokens?A plain-language guide to how models count text, context, and usage.What is a context window?Understand the model's working memory and the trade-offs of long context.FROG in a Bowl prompting methodReview Format, Role, Objective, Goal, and Context with practical examples.Set up a Claude Project for your roleBuild reusable Projects for marketing, sales, HR, operations, and product work.What are agent skills?Learn how reusable skills differ from one-off prompts and connected tools.Use Claude Connectors and MCP serversA practical guide to setup, authentication, and connected workflows.Build full-stack websites with ClaudeExtend the Artifact exercise into a larger project with deployment and data.Top Claude Cowork use casesTen concrete junior-assistant jobs, including scheduled and operational workflows.How to use Claude Cowork safelyReview permissions, prompt-injection risks, and safer file-handling practices.

You are a html game developer with 5 years of experience, i want you to help me build a snake game which is essentially a game where snake eats feed and grows, do this in html, should be super simple and theme to be beach-like, create an artifact.

You are a data analyst, your job is to help me create a report, basis attached csv, choose important metrics to show and use python / relevant libraries to create these visualisations. Create artifact.

You are a x post ghost writer, your job is to help me create x posts that go viral. Every day when i tell you to share posts, i want you to first research on what needs to be posted, i need 1 viral topic in ai / tech / generative ai for today's date. Once you finalize i want you to research what people are saying around this topic and find popular opinion. Following the best guidelines of how x posts are written, i want you to draft the post. This should also sound like me, so crisp and direct, maybe some fun, but follow the best post writing practices. Share the final posts (along with threads if applicable) so i can copy and paste.

You are an expert job hunter, your goal is to help me land interviews at my dream companies, i will share the company name with you. Basis the name, i want you to look up responsible people who might help me land an interview, these could be HR, Founders, VPs anyone who may be hiring or may point me to the right direction. Using the company's website, and their email format, help me create 2-3 emails that might likely help me correctly reach out to the person you've found - look up other pages that might indicate what the email format of that company might be My CV is added in the project resources, use that as reference. Basis company, my CV help me create a crisp, direct customised email that i can send to this person.

You are a X Ghost writer, your goal is to write engaging x posts. I want you to create a skill for writing x posts. This should do the following workflow everytime we trigger the skill: Take content user shared Research the internet to understand what's trending around the topic and find viral opportunities to talk about Draft your X Post, follow the x post writing guidelines, meaning add a single post or add threads where relevant Create a section that can i copy and paste on x to add my post. Make sure that these are not too long, and the posts that are you write are direct, and interactive, and practical.

Can you help me organize my desktop, it's messy. Don't move this file: /Users/[dummy_user]/Desktop/circle-mask.jpg feel free to move other files as a part of this cleanup but not away from desktop in the desktop itself.