Pick your builder tool before Lesson 2

One housekeeping item. Wright is a builder program, not a chatbot program. The Claude chatbot at claude.ai is the version most kids your age already know. You type a question, you get an answer, you go back to TikTok. That is not the tool the rest of this program assumes you have.

What you need is an agentic coding tool. One that runs on your computer, reads files in your project folder, writes code, runs terminal commands, and walks with you through real engineering work. Founders use these. The kids who shipped the products in this lesson use them. Mateo built his Discord bot inside one.

You have four good options. Pick one, install it before Lesson 2, and stick with it for the next 12 modules.

1. Claude Code (Anthropic). claude.com/download. Desktop app and CLI in the same install. The free tier gives you a small daily budget; Pro at $20/month gives you about 45 prompts per 5 hours on Sonnet, Max at $100 gives you about 225, Max 20x at $200 gives you about 900 plus access to Opus. Strongest agent loop of the four. Best for multi-step work like "build me the whole login page, then wire up the database." This is what most Wright builders pick.

2. Codex (OpenAI). chatgpt.com/codex. CLI and a desktop "Codex Cloud" interface. Comes with ChatGPT Plus at $20/month (limited daily usage). ChatGPT Pro at $200/month gives you near-unlimited Codex with GPT-5. Fast, especially for short code generation tasks. Closest competitor to Claude Code. Pick this if your family already pays for ChatGPT and you don't want a second subscription.

3. Antigravity IDE + CLI (Google). antigravity.google.com. A full visual IDE built on a VS Code fork, plus a CLI. Uses Gemini 3. The free tier is the most generous of the four — large daily quota, no credit card required. Strong fit if you've never used an IDE before because the visual interface holds your hand more than a CLI does. Weaker on long agent loops than Claude Code or Codex (Gemini 3 sometimes drifts on multi-step refactors), but for Module 1 through Module 4 you will not notice the difference.

4. Claude Code CLI only (no desktop). If your computer is a Chromebook or an older Mac that struggles with the desktop app, install just the CLI: npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code. Lighter, faster, but you live in the terminal. Pick this only if option 1 won't run.

What we recommend. If your family will pay $20/month or already does, go with Claude Code (option 1) or Codex (option 2, if you already have ChatGPT). The agent loop is meaningfully better than Antigravity for the kind of work the next 11 modules ask of you. If you cannot pay, start with Antigravity (option 3) and switch to Claude Code in Module 3 when you start building seriously.

Install your pick now. Sign in. Open it once. Close it. You'll come back to it in Lesson 2.

If you're under 13, ask your parent to do the install. If you're 13 to 17, do it yourself and tell your parent which app you downloaded so they're not surprised.