claude-school

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Guides to Claude — three comics that build on one another, plus a special, a complete command reference and a hands-on guide to setting up your own server assistant. Every guide comes in English and German, each as a PDF and as a single HTML file, both self-contained (fonts embedded, no external files).

The three comics follow one question: how far do you let Claude at your things? In the conversation everything passes through you. With the desktop app Claude works in your folders. In the terminal it works on the whole machine — and keeps running without you. The Loop Engineering special builds on stage 3 but isn't part of the ladder: it just goes deeper on one topic (/loop in permanent operation).

The German editions live next to them in the same folders; the German README lists them.

Where the content comes from

The command reference is not copied from the documentation but read straight out of the installed build: claude --help, the help of every subcommand, and the command definitions inside the program itself. As of version 2.1.251 — 62 options, 129 available slash commands, 5 present but switched off. A scheduled job keeps it current on every new release of the program.

The comics are checked against Anthropic's official documentation rather than written from memory; the characters and diagrams are hand-written SVG. Both leave out topics that go stale quickly (prices, usage limits) on purpose.

The server guide was followed step by step on a live server. It contains no real credentials — user name, IP address and mail account are placeholders to replace.

Building it yourself

The scripts in werkzeuge/ ("werkzeuge" = tools) reproduce the files above byte for byte. Python 3 only, no libraries; for printing you need Chromium (comics) or WeasyPrint (reference and server guide).

cd werkzeuge/chat-comic && python3 build.py        # -> both languages
cd werkzeuge/befehlsreferenz && python3 build_ref.py
cd werkzeuge/server-setup && python3 uebersetze.py

Note that the tooling itself is written in German — file names, comments and variable names. The published guides are not.

How the English edition is produced

There is deliberately no second build script per language — that would be the one copy which eventually falls behind. Instead the German edition is the source, and the English wording sits beside it in texte_en.py:

• Command reference: texte_de.py and texte_en.py carry the same keys; build_ref.py writes both editions in a single run.
• Comics and server guide: i18n.py swaps the content of every text element in the finished HTML for its entry in texte_en.py. Layout, artwork and commands are left untouched.

The point of it is the completeness check: if a German text has no English counterpart, the build stops and names the missing sentence. So a changed German passage cannot quietly stay German.

Finding pages that got cut off

The comic pages have a fixed height and overflow:hidden — too much content is silently cut off when printing, with no error message. werkzeuge/qa-ueberlauf.py measures, for every page, the distance from the outermost ink to all four edges of the sheet and reports what gets too tight.

python3 werkzeuge/qa-ueberlauf.py cowork-comic/cowork-anleitung.pdf

Exit code 1 on suspicion — so it can be hung into a publishing pipeline as a gate. That is exactly how it is used here: nothing gets published without passing. It works for any PDF with a fixed page size, not just these comics.

Licence and credits

The comics go back to an English Instagram comic by okaashish — characters and dramaturgy are borrowed, the content rewritten and brought up to August 2026. Fonts: Patrick Hand and Caveat (SIL Open Font License).