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Members-only article — unlock to readHow to Build Your Own MCP Server with Python
Build an MCP server in Python with SDK v2.0 or FastMCP: write a tool, add a resource and prompt, test it in Inspector, then wire it into Claude Desktop.
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Members-only article — unlock to readGemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM): A Practical Work Guide
Set up Gemini Notebook as a grounded research workspace: load your own sources, verify every citation, and turn a notebook into real work output.
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Members-only article — unlock to readHow to Build an Agent Skill: A Step-by-Step Guide
Build an Agent Skill to automate specialized workflows across Claude surfaces. Learn to create portable directories with YAML metadata and instructions.
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How to Install Claude Cowork: A Beginner's Guide
Install Claude Cowork on macOS, Windows, or Linux, then set it up to run multi-step agentic tasks securely on your own files.
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How to Install Codex: A Beginner's Guide
Install Codex to deploy a terminal-based coding agent capable of inspecting code, making changes, and executing local development tools securely.
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How to Install Claude Code: A Beginner's Guide
Set up Claude Code for terminal-based AI development. This guide explains how to install Claude Code on macOS, Windows, and Linux for autonomous coding tasks.
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What is 9Router? How to Use It with Claude Code
Optimize Claude Code with 9Router: a local, open-source AI gateway that unifies providers, reduces token spend by 20-65%, and manages smart 3-tier fallback.
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What Is OpenRouter? A Unified Gateway for Large Language Models
OpenRouter is a unified LLM gateway — hundreds of models through one API, with automated failover, zero-data-retention routing, and cost tracking.
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What Is Grok AI? How It Works and Its Most Useful Features
Grok AI is an engineering-focused assistant from SpaceXAI featuring a 2M-token context window, real-time X data access, and specialized reasoning modes.
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Lovable.dev: The AI Engineer Building Full-Stack Apps from a Prompt
Lovable is an AI full-stack builder generating editable React and Supabase codebases from prompts to accelerate MVP and prototype development cycles.
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What are Claude Artifacts and how do I use them?
Claude Artifacts are live, standalone objects for creating and sharing documents, code, and interactive tools directly within the Claude interface.
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The Complete Beginner's Guide to Using Obsidian
Obsidian is a local-first Markdown note-taking app that builds a durable, interconnected personal knowledge base stored entirely on your own hardware.
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Introducing Claude Cowork: A Beginner's Guide
Claude Cowork is Anthropic's desktop agent for knowledge work: it runs multi-step tasks on your local files and delegates the tedious middle to itself.
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What Is Claude Design? A Beginner's Guide
Claude Design is an Anthropic Labs workspace for generating interactive prototypes, landing pages, and slide decks using natural language prompts.
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What Is Codex? A Beginner's Guide to OpenAI's Coding Agent
Codex is OpenAI's autonomous coding agent that uses tool-calling loops to execute engineering tasks across the CLI, IDE, and Cloud environments.
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Introducing Google Antigravity: What It Is and How to Install
Google Antigravity is an agentic development platform for orchestrating AI agents. Install it to use its browser-in-the-loop testing features.
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What is Claude Code? A Beginner's Guide
Claude Code is an agentic coding system by Anthropic that reads codebases, edits files, and runs terminal commands to automate software development tasks.
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The Anthropic AI stack: Claude AI, Code, Cowork & Team
The Anthropic AI stack is a specialized ecosystem of Claude products designed for thinking, building, and automating work within secure environments.
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What is NotebookLM? Google's Source-Grounded AI Research Tool
NotebookLM is a source-grounded AI research tool from Google that uses Gemini models to synthesize your documents into reports, podcasts, and slide decks.
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