Hi, I’m a VIP member, but I recently noticed that I no longer have access to the VIP Skool community and its locked classroom sections. I also joined the Lyceum training program, which includes VIP access, so I’m wondering whether the change may have affected my existing membership. Could you please help restore my VIP access? I’d especially like to review the results from the most recent competition, along with the other content in the locked classroom areas. Thank you for your help.

Jordan took the top of the leaderboard this week. 🎁 What @Jordan Shaw wins: He was already a VIP member and a Lyceum member, this is the first time a member has passed all the possible rewards we have in the line. This is an amazing accomplishment and his contributions speak for himself. ⏰ The 7-day clock resets. Next Monday someone new takes the top spot. 🎯 How it works: - 📝 Post things worth reading - 💬 Help people in the comments - 🛠️ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - ❤️ Engage with what others are putting out there The leaderboard tracks all of it. 🎁 The prize, depending on where you're at: 🆓 Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free ⭐ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying 👑 Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. Jordan, congratulations. First in the community. 👏

I had to make a boring infrastructure decision and could not find data on it, so I ran the experiment. Sharing it because two of the results surprised me and one of them is a genuine footgun. Shortest version: folders win and skills cost more The decision You want every colleague's Claude Code sessions to follow the same set of organisational rules. Two ways to deliver them: - Folder — rules live in the working directory (CLAUDE.md). They load in full at session start, every session. But only if you start in that directory. - Marketplace skill — the same text lives in a skill. Works from anywhere, and only the name and description sit in context until the model decides to load the body. Folder is guaranteed but positional. Skill is portable but conditional. Which one actually holds up? Setup One analytical question over a fixed dataset of project records, identical prompt in every arm. Twenty scorable rules: fourteen text rules, six computational, a mix of ALWAYS and NEVER, all picked so a model would not comply by accident. Three are baited — the prompt misspells the company name, the source data uses dd-mm-yyyy and calls its column deadline, while rules demand ISO dates and a different word. Arms: folder, skill, skill-with-forced-invocation, and a control with no rules at all. The control is not optional — without it you cannot tell "the rule worked" from "the model would have done that anyway". The trick that made scoring easy. The dataset is rigged so each computational rule shifts the requested total by a unique amount: −1, +64, +128, +256, +512, against a compliant total of 1,028. All subset sums are distinct, so one number tells you exactly which rules were applied. No free-text parsing, no LLM judge, no attribution guesswork. I wrote handwritten compliant and naive answers and validated the scorer against them before spending a single run. Then I varied the load: 20 rules, then 210, by adding realistic rules that do not apply to this task — at constant total length, so only composition changed. The last round used heterogeneous distractors across six formats, including 22 near-miss rules that contradict a core rule but are scoped elsewhere ("in e-mail use dd-mm-yyyy", "in offers use the full customer name", "in tickets the word deadline is fine").

This community is large and it moves fast. That's the good part and it's also the problem: valuable posts get buried, the same questions get re-asked instead of found, and spammers show up wherever there's an audience. These guidelines are what keeps the room worth showing up to. Read them once. You won't need them again, because most of this is what you'd do anyway. New here? Start with Jake's welcome post and the Foundation course. This post is about how we behave, not where to begin. 1. Build in public. Post the thing while it's half working. A half-finished build is more useful to everyone else than the polished writeup you'll never get around to, and you'll get corrected before you've spent a week going the wrong way. 2. Teach what you learn. The day you figure something out is the day you're best at explaining it, because you still remember exactly what confused you. A month later you've forgotten the hard part and your explanation gets worse. If you cracked something this week, that's a post. Nobody has to earn the right to ask a question here, but this place only works because people come back and answer them once they can. 3. Ask good questions. Specific beats polite. "How should I structure this?" gets three vague answers. "I have a 40 file client folder, the model keeps loading the wrong context file, here's my CLAUDE.md" gets a real one. Say what you tried, what happened, and what you expected instead. A more in depth guide: https://dontasktoask.com The flip side of this: "Anyone here?", "Help please", and one line questions with no context may get removed. Not to be harsh, but because nobody can answer them. 4. Give credit. If you built on someone's skill, template, folder structure or comment, tag them. It costs you nothing and it's the reason people keep publishing their work here instead of keeping it. A lot of the best material in this community started as somebody's reply on somebody else's post.

1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?