A clickable guide to help those who are trying to level up their use of AI past chat make sense of how to map tasks to products. Use it in two directions.
Build a stack: click pieces and watch what can’t run together dim away — click and see that isn’t a harness you can run from there; click and see the environment drop out.
Start from a task: pick a task and a scenario to see a stack that supports it — “Hand it work today” with “Deep-research a market” prescribes just the surface and , work you can start with no setup at all.
In order to take a high-level view of all of Anthropic’s Claude products, the widget leans on six groups of terms. It’s a lot to hold in one’s head — so here is every card defined. Click one for details and a “reach for it when”:
The glass you look through. A surface never does the work.
The place the agent loop executes. An agent can only reach what its environment can reach.
The software that runs the agent loop.
What the agent can reach. Most are accounts you plug in; two come free.
Every piece of text the agent reads. What you type is one piece; skills and memories are the rest.
What starts the run.