Session Overview
Campus VIP working session held Friday, February 20, 2026 (90 minutes). Attendees: James (host), Barry, and group members. The session covered Claude skills and agents in depth — including live demos, the flipped classroom model, a cross-platform skills comparison, and a practical affiliate marketing setup walkthrough.
Date: Friday, February 20, 2026
Duration: 90 minutes
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1166745997/3e5f911e0b
Key Concepts
Screenshot-First Debugging
AI tools hallucinate menu paths when they can’t see your screen. The fix: add "do not give me instructions until you’ve seen a screenshot" to your standing instructions. This forces Claude to work from what’s actually visible rather than guessing. Works in both Claude and ChatGPT.
Skills and Agents Architecture
Skills are individual task templates. Agents execute them. Cowork orchestrates multiple skills in sequence. You don’t need Cowork to use individual skills — but Cowork unlocks multi-step automation pipelines.
Flipped Classroom Model
AI delivers content pre-class. Students arrive having done guided pre-work. Live class time focuses on application, Q&A, and problem-solving — not content delivery. This model scales well with Claude because skills can generate the pre-work materials automatically.
Cross-Platform Skills
ChatGPT’s "Custom GPTs" and Claude’s "Skills" use the same conceptual architecture: a system prompt + instructions + tools. Mastering one transfers directly to the other. The template structure is identical.
Affiliate Marketing for Educators
Setting up an affiliate program takes 30 minutes and creates passive referral growth. Even 1 active affiliate referring 2–3 clients per year pays for itself. Use FluentCRM to tag affiliate sign-ups and trigger automated onboarding sequences.
Step-by-Step Workflows
Screenshot Debugging Workflow
- Take a screenshot of your actual screen when stuck
- Paste into Claude with: "Do not give me instructions until you’ve seen what I’m looking at"
- Claude identifies exact menu items visible
- Follow the steps — they’ll match your actual interface
Worksheet Generator Workflow
- Open Claude Cowork
- Load the Worksheet Generator skill
- Input: subject area, audience level, learning objective
- Add branding inputs (company name, colors, tone)
- Claude generates worksheet with activities, answer key, and teacher notes
- Download as PDF or publish directly
Flipped Classroom Build
- Upload course materials (PDF, slides, textbook excerpts)
- Prompt Claude to generate pre-work lessons for students
- Assign AI-guided pre-reading before each session
- Design live class around application and Q&A only
- Use Live Class Prep plugin to prep facilitator materials
Affiliate Program Setup
- Install affiliate WordPress plugin
- Set commission rate (flat $10–15 or % of sale)
- Create an Affiliate page on your site using the plugin’s shortcode
- Publish and test the registration flow
- In FluentCRM: create an "Affiliates" tag
- Set up automation: affiliate registers → apply tag → send onboarding email sequence
- Cookie window: 30 days by default (affiliate gets credit if visitor purchases within 30 days of clicking their link)
Tools Mentioned
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Claude Cowork | Skills and plugin orchestration |
| Skills Library (trainingsites.io/skills) | Free skill downloads for paid members |
| Live Class Prep Plugin | Full class package creation from topic prompts |
| Worksheet Generator Skill | Branded educational worksheets with answer keys |
| ChatGPT Custom GPTs | Same architecture as Claude skills — cross-compatible thinking |
| NotebookLM | Google’s tool for slide/infographic generation from documents |
| Atlas Browser (ChatGPT) | Browser that can take over screen navigation |
| Claude in Chrome Extension | Claude’s equivalent for browser-based interaction |
| FluentCart | WordPress cart with affiliate tracking |
| FluentCRM | Affiliate tagging and email automation |
Q&A Highlights
Q: AI keeps giving me wrong menu paths — how do I fix this?
Add "do not give me instructions until you’ve seen a screenshot" as a standing rule. This stops Claude from hallucinating menu structures based on outdated training data.
Q: Do I need Cowork to use skills?
No. Many skills run fine in Claude desktop alone. Cowork adds orchestration — running multi-step workflows automatically without manual prompting between steps.
Q: How do I brand client deliverables from skills?
The Worksheet Generator has a branding step. You can also add a "brand guidelines" skill to any workflow to enforce consistent output (colors, tone, company name).
Q: Is an affiliate program worth it for a small coaching business?
Yes. Setup is 30 minutes. Even 1 active affiliate who refers 2–3 clients per year pays for itself. Use FluentCRM to automate the onboarding and thank-you sequence.
Teachable Moments
AI is only as good as the context it can see. The screenshot debugging tip is a microcosm of a bigger principle: AI hallucinates when it’s working from assumptions rather than observed reality. Give it real data — screenshots, actual files, real numbers — and the output quality jumps significantly.
The flipped classroom is a leverage play. Instead of using AI to replace your teaching, use it to handle the parts of learning that don’t require you (content delivery), so your live time is spent on the parts that do (coaching, nuance, community).
Skills work everywhere. The concepts behind Claude skills transfer directly to ChatGPT, Gemini, and any other AI platform with a custom instruction layer. Learning one means you understand all of them.