FileMaker Coding with Agentic AI for Beginners
The complete set of recordings from all five days of the workshop, held July 13–17, 2026. Every session was recorded start to finish, so you get the whole class — watch it anytime, in any order, at your own pace.
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 had instructors who focus on Mac and instructors who focus on Windows, so both platforms are fully covered in the recordings — whichever one you use, you’re good.
No. Everything covered 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 the workshop doesn’t cover in detail. To follow along with the recordings, your current version is fine.
We created a “day zero” session for the live workshop attendees, and you have access to that recording. We spent it walking through everyone’s real installation issues — both Mac and Windows — and it was highly successful. It covers 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.
Being straight with you: since you’re catching the recording, you can’t ask live questions. Feel free to catch a future live workshop if that matters to you — but the day zero recording should be very helpful on its own.
Workshop attendees had access to our workshop FileMaker Server, which was running FileMaker Server 26. Since you’re watching the recordings, that server is no longer available to you — you’ll want your own.
What you need: FileMaker Server 26 with the latest updates, and OData enabled as a connection capability — that’s a simple on/off switch on the FileMaker Server. If you’d like a hand getting a server set up, let us know.
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.
No. There was more material than time, so the workshop focuses on the most important pieces. OttoFMS matters if you want to run an MCP server, but we don’t set one up (at least not with Otto) during the training — so you don’t need it to follow along.
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 recordings — and learning it yourself 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.
No. This was a paid workshop, so the recordings aren’t posted publicly — the recordings purchase is the way to get them.