Claude Blattman

A professor's guide to building AI workflows — from chatbots to self-improving systems.

Website: claudeblattman.com

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What This Is

A free, open-source resource for non-developers who want to build real AI workflows. Three paths:

1. The Essentials — Tools and foundations. Chatbots done right, dictation, transcription, prompt engineering.
2. The Toolkit — Claude Code setup, configuration, and downloadable skills. From "what is this?" to a working system.
3. Build Your Own — Creating custom skills, agents, and self-improving workflows.

Who It's For

• Academics and researchers managing multiple projects
• Professionals buried in email, meetings, and coordination
• Anyone who wants to move beyond casual chatbot use

No coding background required. Everything is built with markdown and AI tools.

Quick Start

The Starter Kit 0.3.0 review candidate contains seven shared skills for Claude Code and Codex: council, adversarial-review, kit-hello, kit-setup, ask-agents, prompt, and done. Both packages are generated from one source.

Council develops with three local personas; Adversarial Review uses four fresh reviewers. Each has a fresh synthesis worker. Optional named providers include Claude, Codex, Gemini through Antigravity, and subscription-authenticated Grok Build. Local personas remain the default. Saved panel preferences survive package updates.

See the package guide for installation, prerequisites, connections, migration and current validation limits. Plugin installation is the supported path for both apps. The candidate still needs live acceptance testing; repository marketplace commands install the released branch, not necessarily this candidate.

The older skills/ folder is an advanced reference library. Overlapping council/review/done entries point to the bundled workflows rather than maintaining conflicting implementations. Website walkthrough edits are handled separately from this package branch.

Aniket Me

Aniket Me applies Aniket Panjwani's public advice to help improve how you work with AI. Give Claude Code or Codex the linked guide to install or update this self-contained skill, then try it on your work. Browse the skill library for other available workflows.

Repo Structure

claudeblattman/
├── docs/               # Website source (MkDocs Material)
├── plugins/starter-kit-claude/ # Claude plugin for the desktop-agent starter kit
├── plugins/starter-kit-codex/  # Codex plugin from the same shared source
├── skills/             # Downloadable skill files
├── agents/             # Downloadable agent files
├── templates/          # Starter templates (CLAUDE.md, goals.yaml)
├── mkdocs.yml          # Site configuration
├── CONTRIBUTING.md     # Maintenance guide
└── LICENSE             # MIT

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for how to edit content, add skills, and maintain the site.

Release Notes

The starter kit is versioned separately from the broader docs. Each public starter-kit release should have a matching tag such as starter-kit-v0.1.0 and a current public-manifest.json. If a plugin release needs rollback, install from the last known-good tag and avoid changing the marketplace/plugin names.

License

MIT — use anything here however you want.

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Built by Chris Blattman. The name is a joke. The tools are real.