What changed
Every release of the kit is listed here, newest first, with what moved and why. Each release has a version number of the form 1.2.3. The first number changes when the course itself is reorganised, the second when something new is added, and the third when something is corrected.
Your copy carries its version number inside it, and Claude compares that against this site at the start of a session. When your copy is behind, Claude says so and tells you where to get the new one. It never stops you working to make you update.
Getting an update. New versions arrive in your library at the store you bought from, where you download the kit again. The updates page walks through it. That page sits behind the license check, so it asks for your license key, which is the line of letters and numbers on your receipt.
Guidebook pages have their own dates
Apple, GitHub and the rest redraw their screens whenever they feel like it, which is faster than a course can be re-released. So every guidebook page carries the date it was last checked against the real screen, at the bottom of the page. A page checked recently is a page somebody has just walked through. An older date is a page that still works and might show you a button in a slightly different place, which is why each page says what to do when the screen does not match its pictures. Page checks land between releases and are not listed here one by one.
v0.1.0, prelaunch build
2026-08-29. The first assembled version of the whole course, built for testing before the public release. Everything below exists and has been written; the run-throughs that prove it on a clean Mac come next.
- The course. Fifteen milestone files carrying a student from an empty Mac to a released app, with the guide that Claude reads to run them: what Claude does, what the person does, and the check that has to pass before the next milestone opens.
- The guidebook. Nineteen walkthrough pages, one for each moment where a person has to click something in Apple's or another company's website. Text and step order are final. The photographs of each screen are being captured now, and until one arrives its page shows a dashed box describing the picture that belongs there.
- The errors guide. Around a hundred and fifteen named failures across setting up, building, submitting and the first days after release, each written as the message on the screen, the actual cause, and the fix.
- The tooling. The setup script that installs the free tools and prints a pass-or-fail table, the release checks that run before anything is submitted to Apple, the scripts that talk to Apple's own publishing service so the tedious parts happen without clicking, two small Mac programs that set up and verify the syncing storage, and the skills that make Claude check its own work.
- Day Zero. The first hour, written to be read before anything is installed. It ships as a page on this site and as a document inside the kit, so it can be read on a phone while the Mac is still being set up.
- This site. The sales page, this changelog, the legal page, and the license check that opens the guidebook and the errors guide.