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Claude Code for academics — skills, agents, and setup guides

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Claude Blattman

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

Website: claudeblattman.com


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

New to the desktop agent apps? Start with the Desktop Agent Starter Kit:

  1. Install Claude Code, then sign in.

  2. In Claude Code, add and install the starter plugin:

    /plugin marketplace add chrisblattman/claudeblattman
    /plugin install starter-kit@claudeblattman
    
  3. After your first Claude Code handoff, optionally install the Codex starter pack:

git clone https://github.com/chrisblattman/claudeblattman.git
cd claudeblattman/codex-starter
python3 install-codex-starter.py install

Then follow Start Here: Desktop Agent Starter Kit.

The older skills/ library remains available as advanced/reference material, but it is not the recommended first-run path.

Repo Structure

claudeblattman/
├── docs/               # Website source (MkDocs Material)
├── plugins/starter-kit/ # Claude plugin for the desktop-agent starter kit
├── codex-starter/      # Codex starter pack installer + skills
├── 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.


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

Created: Feb 22, 2026

Last push: Jun 14, 2026

Default branch: main

Languages

Share of the codebase by language, based on repository metadata from the host.

  • JavaScript 50.4%
  • Shell 23.1%
  • Python 15.0%
  • HTML 11.5%

Repository Radar analysis

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Why this repository is interesting

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Who should use it

  • Developers working primarily with JavaScript
  • Teams exploring AI tooling, agents, or ML infrastructure

Potential use cases

  • Reference or evaluate JavaScript open-source approaches in this domain
  • Prototype AI/agent workflows or study reference architectures

Strengths

  • README present in our index
  • Declared license: MIT License

Limitations / considerations

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