021-Events

January 2026

The February 2026 cohort of Product Builder: Claude Code Foundations

February 2026

Two x 4 hour sessions on building skills for agents

Cohort 1

Agentic AI for PM Cohort 3

Learn agent-skill composition to go from building AI demos to shipping AI products teams depend on.

Skillsmith Founder/Shopify/Delphia YC18

Ryan Smith

Founder of Skillsmith, x-Shopify, Delphia (YC18), and deep learning founder

Product Builder: Agentic Skills

Professor of Design

Claude Code enables you to create specialists, and this course will teach you workflows to lead those specialists. 

Product Builder, x-Shopify/Delphia YC18

Ryan is an x-Shopify Product Leader, and prior deep learning founder

Product Builder: Agentic AI for Product Managers

AI Product Builder in Trainning

Product Manager

VP Product

Ex System Engineer (Cisco UC), Growth Marketing & SEO Specialist, Solopreneur 

Founder at Mantis XR

Solutions Architect

Web Developer

Shopify.com

Social posts give you fragments. Prompt libraries don't teach judgment. Structured practice is what builds skill.After 12 hours (8 live), you will have shipped a working software product to your own GitHub repository from original research on a topic. Beyond vibe-coding is agentic engineering - a repeatable workflow for structuring work, research, tests, and deployment. You'll know what to delegate, how to check quality, and when to intervene. Content and methodologies of the course have been developed in partnership with Zero to One Events (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://021.Events">https://021.Events</a>), and align with the Agentics Foundation (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://agentics.org">https://agentics.org</a>).

AI is reshaping work faster than you can upskill. Claude Code changes that. 

Tooling Configured

Drive Clarity with Spec-Driven Development

Vertically-Integrate You

Understand Guardrails

Agentic AI workflows with Claude Code build on a foundation in software product research and development. 

An intermediate understanding of the software development lifecycle is required

A minimum $100/month subscription is recommended to be able to execute tasks. 

Claude Code Subscription

This course will require admin rights to install software on the computer

A computer where you have permission to install software

Senior leaders in software/IT needing to understand the new agentic AI capabilities in order to lead teams

Product Managers and Product Designers taking on more scope

Junior and intermediate software developers who want more structured examples that improve their craft.

Agent skills are where quality, speed, and cost of your projects make or break. Learning agent skills will level up your product building. What Students Leave With<ol><li>A production-quality SKILL.md </li><li>A multi-agent system that delegates to 2+ specialists </li><li>The Agent-Skill Matrix framework</li><li>The Token Budget Calculator</li><li>The Delegation Architecture pattern</li><li>The Composition Checklist</li><li>The Anti-Pattern Detection Checklist</li></ol>

Build agentic AI systems that survive real project complexity

 Separate agent behavior from skill tooling to build composable AI systems

Manage context window economics to keep agent outputs sharp

Architect multi-agent delegation that scales without micromanagement

Three or more months using Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, Codex or similar agentic framework.

What experience is needed for this course?

We will likely exceed $20/month plans with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc. Come prepared with your own API key or $100/mo subscription

Tokens are not included in the course fee

Technical leads adopting AI-assisted development who need a decision framework before scaling agent tooling across their team.

Engineers building multi-agent workflows who need practical patterns for context management, delegation, and composability.

Product managers/designers using AI coding tools who want to move beyond prompting into scalable agent architecture for real products.

The Product Builder - From Prompt to Production

CEO & Product Lead, Smith Horn Group (prev. Shopify, Delphia, Digital Animal)

See how briefs, research, specs, code, tests, and deployment connect in a single automated pipeline

The Agentic Workflow

Follow along as Claude Code transforms a product brief into a working, deployed application with tests

Live Build

Know what skills and tools you need to start building with AI agents yourself

Evaluate Your Readiness

Product Builder: Agent Skills

CEO at Smith Horn Group, Lead Instructor at 021:Events, Faculty at Emily Carr

The fundamental architectural principle: agents define behavior, skills define tools. You'll understand why.

The Agent vs. Skill Distinction

Learn the delegation architecture pattern where an orchestrator assigns scoped context to specialist agents.

Context Window Economics

Skills can trigger their own sub-agents on demand - no orchestrator micromanagement required.

The Daisy-Chain Pattern

Intro to Claude Code (for non-engineers)

Install Claude Code in minutes. Launch a first session and understand the terminal interface that transforms work.

Installation & First Launch

Research any topic: competitor analysis, market trends, or technical concepts. Synthesize sources, extract insights.

AI-Powered Research

Create markdown documents, organize them into folders, and build a knowledge base you can reference.

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Courses

Product Builder: Agentic AI for Product Managers

Product Builder: Agentic Skills

Lightning Lessons

The Product Builder - From Prompt to Production

Product Builder: Agent Skills

Intro to Claude Code (for non-engineers)

Intro to Claude Code (for non-engineers)