Lesson 8 of 8
Putting it together
5 min read
You've met the whole toolkit. So when a real task lands on your desk, which part of Claude do you reach for?
Your Claude toolkit
In a handful of lessons you've gone well beyond the chat box. Here's the whole kit in one place — each piece solves a different problem, and the skill is knowing which to pick.
- —Tiers — Haiku, Sonnet, or Opus: match depth to the job.
- —Projects — a shared home of files and instructions that grounds every chat.
- —Artifacts — a live panel you iterate on in place, not by re-asking.
- —Adaptive thinking — let Claude think longer when the problem is hard.
- —Web search & Memory — look things up live, and carry facts across chats.
- —Connectors & MCP — plug Claude into your tools so it can act.
- —Beyond the chat — Claude Code, Chrome, and Cowork act in a loop.
The throughline: pick the tier for the job, keep your work in a Project, iterate in an Artifact, let it think when it's hard, connect what it needs, and always check its work.
One habit ties it all together: Claude is powerful but fallible. Keep a hand on anything that spends money, sends a message, or can't be undone.
One question to leave with
Put it together on a real task: a big, multi-day body of work where you want every chat grounded in the same files and rules. Which feature is built for that?
You're running a months-long project and want every chat to share the same files, tone, and goals. Which feature fits best?
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