Claude Code: Build Your First AI Agent in 30 Minutes (Zero Code)
Save 10+ hours per week with Claude: https://aifoundations.io/go/c-suite-10 In this video, I'll show you how to build your first AI agent in Claude Code, step by step, without writing a single line of code. We'll build an email agent that labels my inbox and drafts replies in my voice, test it until we trust it, and then put it in the cloud so it runs on a schedule without me. You can follow the exact same steps to build an agent for any job. ✅ AGENT BUILDER PROMPT (copy and paste) ✅ I want to build an AI agent in this folder. The job I want to hand off is: [describe the job in a sentence or two, like "label my emails and write replies in my voice"]. I'm not technical, so explain anything technical in plain words the first time it comes up, and do all the setup for me. Please do this in order: Interview me about the job. Ask me one question at a time, and wait for my answer before you ask the next one. Find out what a good result looks like, how I do this job today, what I always do and what I never do, and when you should stop and ask me instead of acting on your own. Keep going until you could do the job the way I would, usually 8 to 12 questions. Gather examples from my tools. Look at the tools I've connected. If any of them hold past examples of this job done well (for example, replies I've sent, documents I've written or posts I've made), tell me what you found and ask before you save anything. Then save the best examples into an "examples" folder inside this folder. Ask me for anything else you need. Tell me which files would help you do this job, like prices, policies, FAQs or templates. I'll drag them into this folder. Tell me when you have enough. Build the agent as three files. Create these, all inside this folder: CLAUDE.md, in the main folder. This is the first thing you read every time you work here. Put in who I am, what this agent's job is, my rules, when to ask me first, where my examples and files are, and these two instructions: "Read MEMORY.md before every job" and "Use the skill for this job." A skill for the job, saved as SKILL.md in its own folder at .claude/skills/[short-job-name]/. This is the step-by-step for doing the job my way, every time: what to read first, the steps in order, what a good result looks like, and how to use my examples. Give it a short name I can type with a slash, like /email-agent. MEMORY.md, in the main folder. This is where you write down lessons from my feedback. Start it with a short note at the top: "Only save feedback that applies to future jobs, not one-off edits." Leave the rest empty for now. Explain what you made. In plain words, tell me what each of the three files does, and show me how to run the agent by typing its slash command. ✅ END PROMPT ✅ 0:00 My AI email agent, live 1:04 What is an AI agent? 1:29 Level 0: Set up your agent workspace 5:16 Level 1: Connect your tools 9:41 Level 2: Build your AI agent 10:14 The Agent Builder prompt 11:52 The 3 files that make an agent 19:39 Level 3: Run and test your agent 24:20 Level 4: Put your agent in the cloud 24:59 Back up your agent on GitHub 27:11 Set up a scheduled routine 29:22 Recap #claudecode #aiagents #claude
