Prompt, Delegate, Automate

PDA 2.0: Updated for Claude Code

What You'll Learn

PDA started as a framework for remote workers using ChatGPT and Zapier. That version still works. But Claude Code changes what's possible, and it changes the approach. You're not crafting chat prompts anymore — you're building a system that knows how you work. You're not just asking AI to help — you're delegating to agents that can read your files, run code, and make decisions. You're not setting up Zapier flows — you're writing skills that run from the terminal.

  • The new prompting — Why "prompt engineering" missed the point. CLAUDE.md and SOUL.md as persistent context. How to stop re-explaining yourself every session.
  • Delegation with teeth — Skills, subagents, and autonomous agents. The difference between asking AI to help and giving it the tools to act. What can be delegated and what shouldn't be.
  • Automation that compounds — The morning-brief skill, the content-pipeline, mail-triage. How to turn a repeated workflow into a single command, and why the investment pays off after the first week.
  • The PDA stack — How the three pillars work together. Where each of your current workflows sits on the manual-to-automated spectrum, and which ones to move next.
  • The bigger picture — How PDA connects to your Obsidian vault, daily notes, and the AI co-operating system pattern. The compound effect of getting the right things off your plate.

This course is built from real workflows. The skills referenced — morning-brief, content-pipeline, mail-triage — exist and run in production. If something sounds abstract, it's because I haven't found the right concrete example yet, not because the concept is theoretical.

Time commitment: About 2.5 hours total. Read it straight through or use it as reference — each module stands on its own.

  1. The New Prompting

    Context over conversation. CLAUDE.md, SOUL.md, persistent instructions vs chat prompts. Why prompt engineering is dead and context engineering is what matters.

  2. Delegating to Agents

    What delegation means when your agents can read files, search the web, and edit code. The agent spectrum from simple skills to autonomous subagents. When to delegate vs do yourself.

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  3. Building Your Automation Layer

    Skills, hooks, cron, pipelines. How to turn repeated work into one-command workflows. Real examples from morning-brief, content-pipeline, mail-triage.

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  4. The PDA Stack

    How prompt, delegate, and automate work together as a system. The progression from manual to semi-automated to fully automated. Identifying what stage each of your workflows is at.

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  5. From PDA to Co-Operating System

    How PDA fits into the bigger picture. Connection to Obsidian vault, daily notes, weekly reviews. The compound effect of automating the right things.

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