LESSON 2 VIDEO SCRIPT: The folder anatomy
Target: 60-90 seconds spoken. Talking head, on-screen text in [brackets].

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[ON SCREEN: One project = one folder]

Before Claude can keep track of your work, your work needs an address.

The whole system rests on one rule: one project, one folder. Every time. Not one folder with three half-finished things inside it. Not the same client living in two places because you forgot you already made it once.

[ON SCREEN: ~/projects/  with client-acme, client-bright-smiles, practice-naturals, command-center listed underneath]

Everything lives under one roof. Your projects root. On most machines that's a folder called projects. Inside it, every project gets its own folder, all sitting at the same level.

[ON SCREEN: highlight a single project folder, show "CLAUDE.md" inside it]

Each project folder holds that project's work, plus one small file called CLAUDE dot M-D. Think of it as the project's name tag. When Claude opens the project, it reads that file first and knows exactly where it landed and what the rules are.

[ON SCREEN: highlight command-center folder, sitting beside the projects, not inside one]

That command-center folder sitting next to your projects is the shared brain. It lives at the same level because it belongs to all of them. We build that next.

[ON SCREEN: NOT a database. NOT a tagging system. Just folders.]

Here's why this works: it's boring and it doesn't move. No database, no tagging system, nothing to maintain. Claude always knows where it is and where things go, because the layout never changes.

[ON SCREEN: Prompt 02: inventory your machine]

And you don't sort this by hand. Prompt 02 in the Pack points Claude at your machine, takes inventory, and proposes a clean layout before it moves a single thing. You approve. Claude drags.

[ON SCREEN: Run prompt 02 → then Lesson 3]

Run the inventory, then come to Lesson 3 and we'll build the brain.
