Create Your First AI Agent with Claude: Beginner's Guide
🤖 What if an AI agent could run your business mornings for you? In this video I build a real AI agent inside Claude for a small business: the Sunrise Bakery Morning Manager. No code needed. The agent reads the bakery's handbook, inventory, sales and weekly notes, writes a short morning report, flags waste and low stock, and prepares the supplier email as a Gmail DRAFT, so the owner always has the final say. Then I put it on a schedule so it runs by itself every morning. ───────────────────────────────────── 🔥 WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ───────────────────────────────────── ✅ The difference between a chatbot and an AI agent ✅ The building blocks of every agent: brain, job description, tools, knowledge, skills, trigger and guardrails ✅ How to create a Claude Project as the home for your agent ✅ How to write clear agent instructions (the job description) ✅ How to add knowledge files: handbook, inventory, sales log and weekly notes ✅ How to connect Google Drive and Gmail to Claude ✅ How to test the tools in a chat before you trust them ✅ How to add and enable a custom skill (SKILL.md) for a repeatable report ✅ A real run: the agent finds waste, a stock shortage and drafts the supplier email ✅ Why "drafts only" is the most important guardrail ✅ How to schedule the agent to run every morning (Pro) 💳 PLAN: Projects, connectors and skills work on the FREE plan (Free: up to 5 projects). Scheduled tasks need Pro or higher. ───────────────────────────────────── ⏱ CHAPTERS ───────────────────────────────────── 00:00 Welcome and Goal 00:57 Chatbot vs Agent 01:47 Agent Building Blocks 04:29 Bakery Workflow Example 05:44 Create a Claude Project 06:39 Write Agent Instructions 08:50 Upload Knowledge Files 10:55 Connect Drive and Gmail 12:41 Test Tools in Chat 14:46 Add and Enable Skills 18:17 Run Morning Report Demo 22:37 Review Draft Email Safety 23:45 Schedule Daily Trigger 28:16 Recap and Wrap Up ───────────────────────────────────── 🔗 RESOURCES ───────────────────────────────────── ↗ Claude → https://claude.ai ↗ Plans and pricing → https://claude.com/pricing ↗ What are projects? → https://support.claude.com/en/articles/9517075-what-are-projects ↗ Use connectors → https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11176164-use-connectors-to-extend-claude-s-capabilities ↗ What are skills? → https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512176-what-are-skills ↗ How to create custom skills → https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12512198-how-to-create-custom-skills ↗ Schedule recurring tasks → https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-claude-cowork ↗ Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude → https://claude.com/blog/cowork-is-now-claude ↗ Claude 101 course (free) → https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-101 ↗ Demo files (handbook, inventory, sales log, weekly note, skill) → https://github.com/sudarshan-koirala/claude-ai-agents-beginners --------------------------------------------------------------------- ☕ Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/datasciencebasics ✌️Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/datasciencebasics ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 🤝 Connect with me: 📺 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@datasciencebasics?sub_confirmation=1 👔 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sudarshan-koirala/ 🐦 Twitter: https://twitter.com/mesudarshan 🔉Medium: https://medium.com/@sudarshan-koirala 💼 Consulting: https://topmate.io/sudarshan_koirala #ClaudeAI #AIAgents #SmallBusiness #NoCode #AIAutomation #ClaudeSkills #Anthropic #datasciencebasics