Foundations & Setup¶
Getting started with AI coding tools: installation, privacy, environment configuration, and first steps.
Summaries¶
Installation & Environment¶
- Install (Mac) — Mac terminal setup, Node.js, npm install for Claude Code
- Install (Windows) — Windows PowerShell setup, Node.js, execution policy fixes
- Set Up VS Code — Three-panel layout, Claude Code extension, research project example
- Claude Code in VS Code — For Academic Economists — Bäckman's economist-focused VS Code starter: Stata/Python/LaTeX extensions, file-format triage, PDF handling
- My Claude Code Setup — Pedro Sant'Anna's opinionated Claude Code configuration
Getting Started¶
- Getting Started: A Researcher's Setup Guide — Five-level AI tool hierarchy, context windows, terminal setup
- Getting Started: Claude Code for Economists — Markus Academy Ep. 162-1, conversational introduction to Claude Code
- Claude Code for Newbies — Blattman's beginner guide to first Claude Code session
- AI for Professionals Who Don't Code — Blattman's site overview and philosophy
- Thinking with Agents (UVM Bootcamp landing page) — Aslim & Beam's two-session course-in-a-box, with installable skill bundle
- Agentic AI Bootcamp — Session 1 — Concepts: chat vs. agentic AI, the AI ladder, context window, planning, permissions, voice files
- Claude Code 101 for Academic Researchers — Bilal's 4M-view non-technical onramp: "bring AI into the folder"
- Claude Code 102 for Academic Researchers — Bilal on scaling to multi-year projects with nested CLAUDE.md files
- Claude Code 103 for Academic Researchers — Bilal on chaining subagents into a four-stage systematic-review pipeline + Git for whole-project version control
- A Beginner's Guide to Claude Code for (Non-Technical) Academics — Bilal's 8,000-word omnibus: install → nested CLAUDE.md → subagent pipelines → hooks → Git
- Claude Code 104: Building Your AI-Powered Research Management System — Bilal's Obsidian + Web Clipper + AGENTS.md recipe for a self-organizing knowledge base
- Codex 101 for Academic Researchers — Bilal's Codex onramp; AGENTS.md as the project instruction file
- Codex 102 for Academic Researchers — Bilal on long projects in Codex: subfolders, Plan Mode, custom agents, hooks
- OpenAI Codex Full Course (4 Hours) — Panjwani's full-stack Codex course; five primitives of agentic coding; Codex-first recommendation
Configuration & Privacy¶
- Privacy & Setup — Data handling, display vs. transmission prevention, pre-flight checklists
- MCP Setup — Model Context Protocol server configuration
- Starter Templates — CLAUDE.md templates and project scaffolding
Safety & Sandboxing¶
- Claude Container Guide — Docker-based sandbox for safe YOLO-mode Claude Code usage
- Permissions & OpenClaw (Markus Academy 162-7) — Goldsmith-Pinkham on permission modes, Docker sandboxes, Safe House, and the Duncan Idaho autonomous-RA pattern
- Permissions, Sandboxes, and Autonomous Agents (Substack companion) — Written companion with copy-pasteable Docker/safehouse commands and a privacy hierarchy (API vs. subscription, Bedrock, local models)
Chatbot & Interaction Patterns¶
- Chatbot Essentials — Core chatbot interaction patterns and best practices
- Chatbots Done Right — Advanced chatbot usage patterns
- Every Claude Code Hack I Know — Power-user tips and tricks (March 2026)