## guides
Guides
44 published kits in guides.
Active Directory Security Audit Kit for Solo IT Teams
A fillable AD audit checklist covering privileged access, stale accounts, GPO hygiene, MFA gaps, and event log review — everything an auditor expects, packaged for the sysadmin who has no security team.
Agent Memory Architecture Part 2: Episodic vs Semantic vs Procedural Memory
The three agent memory types — episodic, semantic, and procedural — explained through the real production code of ClaudeClaw, a 24/7 multi-agent system, so your agents stop starting from scratch every session.
AI Chatbot Account Recovery: Security Audit Checklist for Developers
A developer's guide to designing safe AI chatbot account recovery flows, using the Meta/Instagram breach as a live case study.
AI for Everyday Life Micro-Ebook Bundle
For adults who want one clear, useful AI win — no tech background, no jargon, no wasted afternoon.
AI on Your Phone: A Plain-English Guide for Seniors
A plain-English walkthrough for adults 60+ who want to get real value out of their phone's built-in AI assistant — no apps, no jargon, no tech background required.
Let AI Organize Your Photos: A Senior-Friendly Mini-Guide
For adults 60+ (and the family members who love them): a jargon-free afternoon guide to using free AI tools that find, label, and sort years of photos automatically.
AI Homelab Energy Dashboard: Monitor GPU Power Costs in Real Time
A step-by-step guide to building a Prometheus + Grafana dashboard that tracks GPU wattage, token throughput, and cost-per-inference for local LLM rigs — so homelab operators know exactly what their AI stack costs to run.
AI Literacy Training for Experienced Professionals (50+)
For mid-to-late-career professionals who want practical AI skills that apply to their actual job — without starting over from scratch.
AI-Powered Acquisition Readiness Audit for SaaS Founders
Vibecoding is now a standard M&A due diligence step — Bain consultants are vibecoding acquisition targets to prove their code isn't defensible.
AI Sandbox Isolation: The Infrastructure Checklist Every Agentic AI Team Needs
Network segmentation for AI eval environments, egress allowlisting patterns, and a minimum viable sandbox spec — with steps to verify isolation before you run a capable model.
AI Shared-Chat Malware Detection Guide for IT Teams
A practical guide for IT teams to recognize and block malware distributed through AI shared-chat features, plus ready-to-use organizational AI usage-policy templates.
AI Tool Spend Optimization Guide for Engineering Teams
A practical framework for engineering teams and IT managers to audit, right-size, and optimize spending across Claude API, GitHub Copilot AI Credits, and other metered AI tools — with a cost-per-PR calculator and decision matrix included.
Claude Code Security Audit Tool for GitHub Repos
Build a pre-flight scanner that inspects a GitHub repo's setup scripts and CLAUDE.md before Claude Code runs them — flagging DNS-pulled payloads, suspicious eval patterns, and reverse-shell indicators.
Claude Enterprise Deployment Guide for IT Departments
A practical guide + reusable templates for IT teams inheriting Claude-powered workflows from consultants — covering security posture, data governance, API integration patterns, and shadow AI governance.
Claude Fable 5 Coding Agent Quickstart for Sysadmins
A practical decision guide for IT pros and sysadmins already using Claude Code who need a fast, honest answer on whether Fable 5 earns its cost in real infrastructure work.
Cron & Scheduled Tasks Quick-Reference Kit for Linux Sysadmins
Master cron, systemd timers, and at jobs in one printable reference — syntax cards, real-world job examples, and a safety checklist so you never fat-finger a production schedule again.
DevOps Career Roadmap & Certification Guide 2026
For mid-level IT professionals with 3–7 years of operations experience who are ready to move into a DevOps or Cloud Engineer role — and want a clear, opinionated path to get there in 2026.
DevOps/SRE Interview Prep Cheat Sheet Bundle
Crack your DevOps/SRE interview in a weekend — scenario frameworks, K8s commands, CI/CD walkthroughs, and behavioral answers all in one cheat sheet bundle.
DevOps/SRE Career Track Bundle (Interview Prep + Resume Kit)
Land your next DevOps or SRE role faster — ATS-optimized resume templates, 2026 keyword lists, and scenario-based interview frameworks in one career bundle.
Microsoft Entra ID Migration Starter Kit for Sysadmins
A practical guide + checklist bundle for IT admins migrating on-premises Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID in 2026 — covering Cloud Sync, legacy auth deprecation, Intune join strategy, and a phased migration checklist sysadmins can actually execute.
Entra ID Zero Trust Starter Kit for Sysadmins
A practical guide and policy template bundle for sysadmins implementing Microsoft Entra ID Zero Trust — Conditional Access policies, MFA rollout, Privileged Identity Management basics, and a 30-day activation roadmap.
Forward-Deployed Engineer Career Guide for Sysadmins
Show experienced sysadmins how their real-world deployment skills map directly to the fastest-growing AI-era role — Forward-Deployed Engineer — and give them a concrete path to land one at $200K+.
GitHub Copilot AI Credits Cost Calculator
A free web calculator that estimates your monthly GitHub Copilot cost under the new metered AI Credits billing model based on your actual usage patterns.
GLM-5.2 Local Deployment Guide for Mac Studio
GLM-5.2 is a 753B open-weight MIT-licensed model beating GPT-5.5 on SWE-bench Pro (62.1 vs 58.6) and FrontierSWE (74.4%) at 1/6th the cost.
IT Offboarding & Knowledge Transfer Kit
Structured templates for capturing and handing off institutional IT knowledge when someone leaves — access deprovisioning checklist, system ownership matrix, undocumented-workaround interview guide, and a 30-day successor onboarding plan.
IT Vendor AI Contract Review Checklist
A structured checklist and scoring rubric for IT managers evaluating vendor AI clauses — data retention, model training rights, liability, and exit terms — before signing SaaS contracts that now bundle AI features by default.
IT Vendor Review Meeting Template Kit
A reusable template bundle — agenda, scoring rubric, TCO spreadsheet, and follow-up email pack — that gives IT managers a structured, repeatable process for evaluating and presenting vendor decisions to leadership.
Kubernetes Troubleshooting Runbook & Decision-Tree Kit
A printable PDF runbook with visual decision trees for the 15 most common Kubernetes failures — CrashLoopBackOff, ImagePullBackoff, pending pods, OOMKilled, and more — turning a 45-minute debug spiral into a 5-minute checklist.
Linux Command Line & Sysadmin Cheat Sheet Bundle
For junior-to-mid Linux sysadmins, cert studiers, and homelab operators who want organized command references — not another tab of man pages.
MAESTRO Security Framework for Claude Code Projects
Apply the MAESTRO 7-layer threat-modeling framework to any autonomous Claude Code / Agent SDK project — enumerate threats across the whole chain and fill in a reusable threat model for your own stack.
MCP Server Setup Guide for Sysadmins
A hands-on guide for sysadmins and IT pros to deploy, configure, and secure local MCP servers — covering tool selection, auth patterns, network exposure controls, and integration with Claude Code and local LLMs.
On-Call Survival Kit for Sysadmins & SREs
Survive and improve every on-call rotation — runbook templates, alert triage flowcharts, escalation scripts, and a post-incident review framework in one downloadable bundle.
OpenAI Codex Record & Replay: IT Automation Without Code
Learn to record your repetitive IT workflows once and let Codex replay them as reusable AI skills — the practical guide for sysadmins who want automation without writing a script.
Prompt Injection Defense Toolkit for Claude Code Users
Detect injected instructions in fetched content, audit tool call chains, and run agentic workflows safely — the prompt injection defense guide Anthropic hasn't written yet.
Proxmox VE Complete Setup & Migration Guide
Stop piecing together blog posts. Migrate from VMware and run Proxmox right.
Run Your Own LLM API Endpoint with HF Jobs + vLLM
Hugging Face Jobs now lets you spin up a private, OpenAI-compatible vLLM endpoint in a single command with pay-per-second billing.
SE Job Market 2026: AI Skills Transition Guide for Sysadmins
A practical pivot guide for sysadmins navigating the 42% AI-skills mandate and 28% entry-level SE decline — showing exactly which AI engineering skills convert fastest from an ops background.
SkillOpt for ClaudeClaw Agents
Implement Microsoft Research's SkillOpt concept for ClaudeClaw's war room agents: treat each agent's procedural memory file as trainable external state that self-improves across runs.
Slash Command System Deep Dive: Build Your Own Agent Dispatcher
Build a custom slash command dispatcher in TypeScript using ClaudeClaw as a live working example — bridging simple prompts and real agentic workflows.
Solo Sysadmin Salary & Career Navigation Bundle
A practical toolkit for mid-career sysadmins ready to stop accepting stagnant pay and start making data-backed decisions about their compensation and career.
The Real Economic Disruption Playbook — ASTGL Newsletter Series
For mid-career sysadmins and IT ops professionals who want a grounded, data-backed framework for navigating AI-era disruption — not reassurance, not doom.
VMware ESXi to Proxmox Migration Playbook
Step-by-step migration playbook for moving Windows and Linux VMs from ESXi to Proxmox VE — covering OVA/OVF export, storage migration, network reconfiguration, and post-migration validation checks.
Windows Event Log Threat Hunting Starter Kit
A cheat sheet bundle and detection runbook that teaches sysadmins to hunt real threats using native Windows Event Log IDs — no SIEM required.
Windows Server Patch Management Playbook
For solo sysadmins and small IT teams managing Windows Server patching at SMBs — a practical guide and checklist bundle that turns a monthly fire drill into a repeatable process.