A quick check-in before we start.

Software Engineer / Developer Staff / Principal Engineer Solution Architect / Enterprise Architect Engineering Manager / Tech Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Data / ML Engineer Security / Compliance Product Manager Other

0–1 2–5 6–10 10+

Claude Code Claude chat (claude.ai / desktop / mobile) GitHub Copilot Cursor ChatGPT / Codex Gemini / Google AI Other None

Never used Tried once or twice Occasional (a few times a month) Regular (weekly) Daily driver

No, never Explored the docs / examples but haven't built anything Built a small prototype or internal tool Shipped something in production

CLAUDE.md / project context files MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers Claude Skills Subagents in Claude Code The Claude Agent SDK Artifacts Hooks / custom slash commands Plan mode None of the above

A license file required by Anthropic A log of all Claude interactions Persistent project context and instructions that Claude Code reads automatically Configuration for API keys I don't know

Standardize how LLM applications connect to external tools and data sources Compile Claude models locally Multiply the context window at runtime Encrypt Claude's responses I don't know

A background daemon that auto-commits code A smaller, local model that runs offline A monitoring tool for Claude usage A specialized delegate with its own context window, system prompt, and tool set I don't know

A security audit log A CI/CD pipeline artifact A database schema definition A lightweight document capturing a significant architecture decision, its context, and its consequences I don't know

The model streams responses token-by-token The model has been fine-tuned on company data The model autonomously plans, calls tools, and iterates toward a multi-step goal The model runs on dedicated GPUs I don't know

Paste the standard into every prompt Fine-tune a custom Claude model on the standard Email the standard to your teammates and hope for the best Encode it as a Skill or in CLAUDE.md so it's loaded automatically in context I don't know