What you learn
- Scoping a small real problem you can actually finish, and writing a spec for it
- Building, testing, securing and deploying it with everything from Courses 1 to 4
- Shipping it discoverable and agent-first, with a clear acceptance-criteria checklist
Summary
This is where it all becomes one workflow. Not five separate skill sets, but a single loop from idea to live product: scope a real problem, write the spec, build it with your agent, run the quality gate, harden the security, make it discoverable and agent-first, deploy it, and put it in front of people. The deliverable is a shipped thing, however small, plus the proof - to yourself - that you can take any idea through this loop again. This lesson is a guided build with a concrete acceptance checklist, not a reading.
What you will learn
You will run the full end-to-end loop once, deliberately: scope ruthlessly to something finishable, spec it the way Course 1 taught, build it with Claude Code on a real stack, protect it with the tests and security from this course, make it discoverable with SEO and an llms.txt, give it an agent-first API surface, deploy it, and share it. The output is a live product and a repeatable process.
Prerequisites
All five courses. The capstone draws on every skill: model choice and prompting (Course 1), agent mastery (Course 2), the modern stack of auth, data and payments (Course 3), automation and agentic systems (Course 4), and the quality, security, legal, SEO and agent-first lessons of this course. If any of those feels shaky, do a quick pass before you start - the capstone assumes them.
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The problem
The single most common way a capstone dies is scope. People pick something huge and inspiring, build forty percent of it, hit the messy middle, and quietly abandon it. An unfinished ambitious project teaches far less than a finished tiny one, because shipping is where you meet every problem the tutorials skipped. The whole discipline of this lesson is choosing something small enough to finish and real enough to matter, then carrying it all the way to live.
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