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Books, field notes, templates and automation playbooks for Claude Code, Codex and every AI CLI worth using. Go from your first prompt to agents that ship while you sleep.
01 — Why AI Leader
Everyone has access to the same models. The gap is no longer the AI — it's the operator. We write the playbooks that turn a chat window into a team of agents: the configs, the prompts, the hooks, the workflows, and the hard-won judgment of when not to trust the output.
02 — Four tracks
Install, configure and actually understand your first AI coding agent. No hype, no hand-waving.
Make the agent work your way. Project memory, custom commands, and workflows you can repeat on demand.
Wire agents into your stack. Build MCP servers, hooks and multi-agent setups that hold up in production.
Agents that run without you. CI pipelines, scheduled routines and self-healing automations — with guardrails.
03 — The library
Deep, opinionated books on each tool — written by people who ship with them daily. Updated every time the tools change.
5-minute reads on one technique each. Copy, paste, ship.
Battle-tested CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, hooks, skills and settings files.
End-to-end automations: PR review bots, release notes, triage, reporting.
Every flag, command and shortcut — for every CLI — on a single page.
Curated, reviewed MCP servers and dev tools, with security notes and setup guides — so you don't install something sketchy.
What changed in every AI tool this week, and what it means for you.
Refactors, migrations, test generation, code review — prompts that work.
04 — How it works
Start where you are. Every chapter ends in something you can run.
Grab a config from the vault and adapt it to your repo in minutes.
Turn the workflow into a hook, a routine or a CI job.
Agents open PRs, you review them over coffee.
# Chapter 3 · Your first real workflow $ claude > add rate limiting to /api/login, write the tests first ✓ wrote tests/rate-limit.test.ts (4 failing) ✓ implemented middleware/limit.ts ✓ 4/4 passing# vault/templates/CLAUDE.md ## Project rules - Run `pnpm test` before every commit - Never touch /migrations without asking - Prefer server components $ cp vault/CLAUDE.md ./ ✓ copied# .github/workflows/agent-review.yml on: pull_request jobs: review: run: claude -p "review this diff for security issues" --output json ✓ workflow active on 3 repos# 07:02 — overnight summary ● PR #214 bump deps + fix 2 breakages ● PR #215 flaky test quarantined ● PR #216 docs synced with API ● 1 needs your eyes: auth change $ coffee && review
05 — Pricing
Need one thing? Buy any single book, guide, template pack or cheat sheet.
Everything for one level — pick Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced or Expert.
Every module and every resource — plus everything we release in the future.
06 — Questions
Yes. The Beginner module assumes zero experience with AI agents — just that you can open a terminal.
Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Aider, OpenCode and more, plus MCP, n8n and CI integrations. When a new tool matters, it gets a chapter.
Every book is versioned. When a tool ships a meaningful change, the affected chapters are updated and noted in the weekly Changelog.
A module ($15) unlocks everything for one level. Lifetime ($30) unlocks every level, every resource, and everything we publish in the future — so it pays for itself the moment you want two levels.
Yes. Everything in the vault is licensed for use in your personal and commercial projects.
Yes — email vikram@aileader.space with your team size and we'll set you up.
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