You just downloaded plsBuild OS.
Three clicks and Claude already knows who you are, how you work, and what you're building. Pick the Claude product you're installing on below.
Two steps that matter. A third that's optional.
Paste your profile into Claude Settings
Open profile/my-profile.md in a text editor. Fill in the bracketed parts — your name, voice in three words, design taste, stack. Copy the whole file.
Then in Claude Chat, go to Settings → Profile, paste into "What personal preferences should Claude consider in responses?", and save.
Claude will now read your voice, taste, and stack at the start of every conversation.
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Three questions, a few words each. Copy the result into Settings, or download as my-profile.md.
Install the 18 skills
In Claude Chat, go to Customize → Skills. Click Upload skill and upload all 17 zip files from the skills/ folder. Toggle each one on.
The skills, grouped by the phase you're in:
Two of them (/voice, /design) have a small fill-in block at the top of their SKILL.md file. Open each, fill in your answers once, and save.
Try one right now. Start a new chat and type: "Use the /voice skill to write three headlines for my product." If they sound like you, the setup is working.
Optional: create a Project for your first product
The skills work in any chat, but when you set up a dedicated Project for each product you build, Claude gets additional context automatically.
In Claude Chat → Projects → New Project, name it. Paste project/product-brief.md (filled in) into the Project Instructions. Upload project/spec-template.md as a file.
Three things. Cowork reads from local folders, so step 3 is slightly different from Chat.
Paste your profile into Cowork Settings
Open profile/my-profile.md, fill in the brackets, copy the whole file. In Cowork, go to Settings → Profile and paste it in. Save.
Claude will now read your voice, taste, and stack at the start of every session.
Fill it in here instead · under a minute
Three questions, a few words each. Copy the result into Settings, or download as my-profile.md.
Install the 18 skills
In Cowork, go to Customize → Skills. Upload each zip from the skills/ folder. Toggle each one on.
Two of them (/voice, /design) have a fill-in block at the top. Open each, fill it in once, save.
Create a product workspace
Pick a permanent folder, for example ~/plsbuild-os/my-product/.
Copy project/product-brief.md into it and rename it to context.md. Cowork reads workspace context from that exact filename. Fill it in.
Also copy project/spec-template.md into the folder, rename to my-product-spec.md, fill it in as your living spec.
In Cowork, New workspace → point it at the folder. Cowork reads context.md and the spec automatically every session.
Four steps. Works in the desktop app or Terminal.
Fill in your profile
There's already a CLAUDE.md file in your plsBuild OS folder with a blank profile template. Answer the questions below, then either:
- Click Download to get a filled-in
CLAUDE.mdand replace the existing one in the folder - Or click Copy and paste the profile into the existing
CLAUDE.mdfile
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A few words each.
Or open CLAUDE.md in any text editor and fill in the brackets yourself.
Connect this folder to Claude Code
Open Claude Code and connect it to the plsBuild OS folder. It will set up a .claude/ directory and read your profile automatically.
Already have a project folder connected? Stay in it. Skip to Step 3. You can merge anything useful from this bundle's CLAUDE.md into your existing one later.
Install the skills
Open the skills-for-claude-code/ folder in the plsBuild OS bundle. Select all 18 folders inside and copy them.
Then open the .claude/ folder inside whichever project you connected to Claude Code (the plsBuild OS folder, or your existing project). If there's a skills folder inside, paste them in. If not, create one called skills and paste them there.
One-time setup per project.
Try a skill
Tell Claude what you're working on and try a skill:
"I want to build [your idea, even if it's vague]. Use the /spec skill to help me figure out what exactly to build first."
Replace the brackets with your actual idea. Even "an app that helps people find good restaurants" is enough. The skill will help you sharpen it.
Prefer Terminal?
Skip Steps 1-3 above. Run this one command instead and it does everything:
Then open ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and fill in your profile. Can't find it? Press Cmd + Shift + G in Finder, type ~/.claude and hit Enter.
What's in this folder?
The starred items are what you'll touch first. The rest is here when you need it.
my-profile.md once, paste it into Claude. Claude reads it at the start of every conversation.
product-brief.md once per project. Update spec-template.md as you build.
the-workflow.md when you're juggling more than one product and the spec file stops being enough.
Keep the spec alive.
Setup is quick. The real value comes from a two-minute ritual at the end of every meaningful session.
When you've made a decision, shipped something, or changed your mind, ask Claude:
Claude drafts the update from your conversation. You review, paste into the spec file (or your board, if you're using the workflow layer), done. Every session drifts forward instead of sideways.