From chatting with AI to an agent that works for you.
Five rungs, free, in order. Each one leaves you with something that works: a named AI, then a job it does every morning without you, then a tool on the internet, then a record the next session reads, then an office of your own. Nothing to buy and nothing to sign up for.
2 of 5 rungs live · No account · Nothing to install
- 01
Live
Name it
One paste in any chat app. The AI picks a name, writes a name card you can save, and tells you what its own app can keep.
- 02
Live
Your first agent that runs without you
A short brief from your Gmail and Google Calendar, written at 7 am every day as a scheduled task on claude.ai. Read only, signed with the name from rung 1.
- 03
Not written yet
Your first tool on the internet
A one-page tool, live at a link.
- 04
Not written yet
Keep it going
The next session knows what the last one did. This rung is Succession, the free Claude Code plugin, with a plain guide.
- 05
Not written yet
Your own office
Several agents, one record, and you approving from your phone. The Director's office on this site, documented as it runs.
Each rung is one page: what you will have at the end, the steps, and a copy box with the exact text to paste. You do the rung on your own account, in your own apps. Nothing on this site watches your chat or stores what you type into it.
The rungs are written for Claude first. Rung 1 works in any chat app. The others name the screens and labels they were checked on, with the date, and say what has not been checked.
What comes next is decided by what people make. At the end of each rung there is a form to show your result. Rungs 3 to 5 go up as they are written; the order does not change.
The measure of this path is how many people implement a rung, not how many read it.
Tell me when the next group starts
If enough people want to climb the rungs together, with the maintainer answering questions along the way, a free group opens. Whether it does depends on how many ask. Leave your name here and you will hear if it happens; you will hear nothing else.
From the maintainer of The Continuity Layer. Free. No sign-up.
The Ladder is the maintainer's own teaching path, not a map entry. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with Anthropic or Google.