# Common Practice

## Pages
- [AI strategy, training & engineering | Common Practice](https://withcommonpractice.com/index.md): AI strategy, practical training, and hands-on engineering for legal and corporate teams. Move from AI conversations to tasks, shared workflows, and supervised agents.
- [About · Common Practice](https://withcommonpractice.com/about.md): Common Practice brings AI strategy, training and engineering into the everyday work of legal and corporate teams.
- [Contact us · Common Practice](https://withcommonpractice.com/contact-us.md): Start a conversation about AI strategy, training or hands-on engineering for your legal or corporate team.
- [Your first conversation](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/getting-started/first-conversation.md): Start with a small, fictional task and describe what you need.
- [Write a clear request](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/getting-started/clear-request.md): Give the task, the useful background and the shape of the answer.
- [Work with a short document](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/working-with-documents/short-document.md): Practise with a made-up note that you can check yourself.
- [Find the details](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/working-with-documents/find-the-details.md): Ask for specific details rather than a broad summary.
- [Check a response](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/checking-results/check-a-response.md): Compare an answer with the source before using it.
- [Improve the answer](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/checking-results/improve-the-answer.md): Ask for one clear change and compare the new version.
- [Meet your project](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/getting-started/meet-your-project.md): Begin by asking what is in a sample project before asking for a change.
- [Choose a small task](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/getting-started/choose-a-small-task.md): Pick one visible change that will be easy to review.
- [Describe the change](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/giving-a-clear-task/describe-the-change.md): Say what happens now and what should happen after the change.
- [Add clear boundaries](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/giving-a-clear-task/add-boundaries.md): Tell the tool what the task may change and what needs a separate decision.
- [Read the changes](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/reviewing-changes/read-the-changes.md): Review the changed words and files before keeping the work.
- [Check and keep the work](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/reviewing-changes/check-and-keep.md): A reported check and a result you have seen are different pieces of evidence.
- [What an agent does](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/understanding-agents/what-an-agent-does.md): Practise describing a task as small steps with a person reviewing the result.
- [People and tools](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/understanding-agents/people-and-tools.md): List the people, information and tools a fictional task would need.
- [Define the task](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/planning-a-legal-task/define-the-task.md): Make a fictional task small enough to describe and check.
- [Set the boundaries](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/planning-a-legal-task/set-the-boundaries.md): Name the information and actions a fictional task may use.
- [Check the sources](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/checking-work/check-the-sources.md): Connect each result with the exact part of a fictional source that supports it.
- [Review the outcome](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/checking-work/review-the-outcome.md): Review the source, the result and any uncertainty before deciding what happens next.

## Sample courses

[Course catalogue](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses). Courses are open; saved progress stays in the visitor's browser.

### [Claude for Beginners](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners)

Practise giving Claude a clear task, working with documents and checking the result.

#### Getting started
- [Your first conversation](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/getting-started/first-conversation.md) — page ID: claude-first-conversation
- [Write a clear request](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/getting-started/clear-request.md) — page ID: claude-clear-request

#### Working with documents
- [Work with a short document](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/working-with-documents/short-document.md) — page ID: claude-short-document
- [Find the details](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/working-with-documents/find-the-details.md) — page ID: claude-find-the-details

#### Checking and improving results
- [Check a response](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/checking-results/check-a-response.md) — page ID: claude-check-a-response
- [Improve the answer](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/claude-for-beginners/checking-results/improve-the-answer.md) — page ID: claude-improve-the-answer

### [Codex for Beginners](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners)

Practise describing a small code change, reviewing the work and keeping the result.

#### Getting started
- [Meet your project](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/getting-started/meet-your-project.md) — page ID: codex-meet-your-project
- [Choose a small task](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/getting-started/choose-a-small-task.md) — page ID: codex-choose-a-small-task

#### Giving a clear task
- [Describe the change](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/giving-a-clear-task/describe-the-change.md) — page ID: codex-describe-the-change
- [Add clear boundaries](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/giving-a-clear-task/add-boundaries.md) — page ID: codex-add-boundaries

#### Reviewing and keeping changes
- [Read the changes](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/reviewing-changes/read-the-changes.md) — page ID: codex-read-the-changes
- [Check and keep the work](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/codex-for-beginners/reviewing-changes/check-and-keep.md) — page ID: codex-check-and-keep

### [Agentic AI for Legal Work](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work)

Explore how to plan, check and supervise a small legal-work example with an AI agent.

#### Understanding agents
- [What an agent does](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/understanding-agents/what-an-agent-does.md) — page ID: legal-what-an-agent-does
- [People and tools](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/understanding-agents/people-and-tools.md) — page ID: legal-people-and-tools

#### Planning a legal task
- [Define the task](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/planning-a-legal-task/define-the-task.md) — page ID: legal-define-the-task
- [Set the boundaries](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/planning-a-legal-task/set-the-boundaries.md) — page ID: legal-set-the-boundaries

#### Checking and supervising work
- [Check the sources](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/checking-work/check-the-sources.md) — page ID: legal-check-the-sources
- [Review the outcome](https://withcommonpractice.com/courses/agentic-ai-for-legal-work/checking-work/review-the-outcome.md) — page ID: legal-review-the-outcome