FileMaker Coding with Agentic AI for Beginners
Yes — every session is recorded, and the recording is made available to attendees within a couple of days after each day’s workshop.
You can, but if you’re new to agentic development our recommendation — which is also Claris’s recommendation — is to start with Claude Code. Claude Code and Codex are very similar, competing products, so what you learn carries over either way. Several of our workshop instructors use both and can point out any meaningful differences if you’d like to go the Codex route.
Yes. The workshop will have instructors who focus on Mac and instructors who focus on Windows, so both platforms are fully covered — whichever one you use, you’re good.
No. Everything we’ll do in the workshop works with FileMaker 22 — the version you likely already have. You’ll probably want to move up to FileMaker 26 eventually, especially if you get into more advanced work like patching the underlying XML, but that’s an advanced topic we won’t cover in detail. For the workshop itself, your current version is fine.
Before day one we’ll send everyone a homework assignment that walks you step-by-step through installing the tools you’ll need on your development machine (Claude Code, ProofKit, and a few supporting files). Getting installed is the first step toward success and is genuinely part of the workshop — so if you hit a snag, we’ll likely hold an early office-hours session (probably the Sunday before we start) to get you unstuck. You won’t have to figure it out alone.
No. Nothing needs to be installed on your FileMaker Server for the workshop — you’ll be using our servers during the class. Once you’ve seen how it all works, you’ll be able to take what you’ve learned and deploy it to your own server afterward.
Either works. The tools run fine on both macOS Sequoia and Tahoe (Richard is personally on Tahoe). There’s no need to rush an OS update for the workshop — and, as above, you don’t need FileMaker 26 either.
Not for this workshop. We have more material than we have time for, so we’re focusing on the most important pieces. OttoFMS matters if you want to run an MCP server, but we don’t plan to set one up (at least not with Otto) during the training — so you don’t need it for the class.
Yes — building a public-facing, web-based front end to an existing FileMaker solution is a big part of what makes this exciting, and it’s exactly what Richard has been doing. Other instructors also have hands-on experience using agentic AI to alter scripts, schema, and more inside the FileMaker platform, so we’ll cover that side too. (Fair warning: every so often you’ll still want to wring the AI’s neck — that’s part of the ride.)
Now’s a great time to learn the AI basics through the workshop — and learning it yourself (or grabbing the recordings) will be far cheaper than hiring the cleanup out. Being straight with you, though: today’s AI tools still have real limitations when it comes to aggressively cleaning up an existing multi-file FMP12 solution, so for now serious cleanup is still best handled in scripting. Claris is also working on new AI capabilities — expected to be shown publicly soon and likely finalized later this summer — and that tooling is what you’ll really want for the heavy lifting. So: learn the basics now, then use the Claris tools for the big cleanup once they land.
Yes. The workshop is recorded, and we plan to offer the recordings as a separate, recordings-only purchase for people who can’t make the live sessions. Since it’s a paid event, the recordings won’t be free on YouTube. If you purchase the full workshop in advance, you get both — live attendance in the Zoom sessions and the recordings afterward. Just keep in mind that the big advantage of attending live is being able to ask questions and get everything straightened out on the spot — but if the live schedule doesn’t work for you, the recordings will be there.