Claude ships faster than anyone can keep up.

Here's the 30-term map to catch up in 5 minutes:

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1. The 3 Models

☑ Opus = the smartest. Use it for thinking & writing.

☑ Sonnet = quick edits. Scanning files. Light tasks.

☑ Haiku = short answers. Cheap. Forget it exists.

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2. The Apps You Already Know

☑ Chat = The basic text box on claude .ai.

☑ Cowork = Chat + folders. This is where you live.

☑ Claude Code = for devs. Skip it unless you build.

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3. The Apps You Don't Know Yet

☑ Claude Design = builds websites. No code.

☑ Claude in Excel = lives in your spreadsheet.

☑ Claude in Chrome = a browsing agent.

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4. Workspaces & Memory

☑ Projects = one workspace per task.

☑ Custom Instructions = prompt scoped to Projects

☑ Memory = Claude remembers across chats.

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5. Outputs

☑ Artifacts = docs, code, apps in a side pane.

☑ Markdown = .md files. Claude's favorite format.

☑ CLAUDE .md = the memory file Claude Code read

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6. The Skills System

☑ Skills = saved prompts. Trigger with / command.

☑ SKILL .md = the trigger & instructions inside skills

☑ Plugins = bundles of Skills + Connectors for a job.

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7. Connections

☑ Connectors = links between Claude & your apps.

☑ Computer Use = It clicks & types on your screen.

☑ Dispatch = phone app to fire tasks to the desktop

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8. Power Modes

☑ Adaptive Thinking = makes it think before output.

☑ Research = deep web research for a full report.

☑ Web Search = live results from the internet.

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9. Smart Helpers

☑ AskUserQuestion = clickable form to prompt you

☑ Scheduled Tasks = Claude on a recurring timer.

☑ Global Instructions = prompt it reads before tasks

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10. The Foundations

☑ Prompt = the text you send. Files > prompts.

☑ Styles = saved tone presets. Don't sound like AI.

☑ Vibecoding = building anything by just prompting.

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