Ruben Hassid · 6 min read · Gen AI Tools
How to set up Claude.
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This article provides a step-by-step guide to setting up Claude effectively, covering the built-in /setup skill, Team plan configuration, model and effort level selection, and key organizational settings. It emphasizes practical shortcuts and configuration choices to maximize Claude's performance and privacy for team use.
Key Takeaways
- Use the built-in /setup skill to get guided onboarding from scratch, and prompt it with 'ASD STE 100' for simplified, IKEA-style instructions when stuck
- The Team plan is recommended over personal accounts for safety, with a maximum of 150 seats before Enterprise pricing kicks in
- Opus 5.5 at Medium effort covers ~80% of use cases; switch to High effort only for high-stakes, one-shot tasks like proposals or important client emails
- Turn off 'Rate chats' to prevent conversations from being sent to Anthropic for training — thumbs up/down icons are an exception that shares full conversation history
- Enable memory settings (Generate memory from chats and Search and reference chats) but be cautious — an owner disabling memory later permanently deletes all members' stored memories
Excerpt
Zero introduction. Straight into the ‘how’: 1. Type /setup . Claude’s team made a skill to set up your Claude. And no one knows it. A skill is a saved set of instructions Claude follows for one kind of task. Just type /setup and prompt it: /setup This is a new Claude account. Set up my Claude from scratch, step by step. It is the best onboarding Claude has, and it is already built in. Claude will know what to do next. If you’re stuck at a step, just prompt it: I couldn’t complete this step. Explain in ASD STE…