# Level 250

> Build what agents want. Emmanuel Paraskakis — 15+ years building API products and the tools that build them.

Agents: start at https://www.level250.com/for-agents (canonical facts, tools, how to cite).

## Agent tools

- [API Lessons MCP server](https://ll-mcp.replit.app/mcp): A comprehensive list of free, short Lightning Lessons on the Maven education platform by Emmanuel Paraskakis.
  Streamable HTTP, no sign-in. Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http api-lessons https://ll-mcp.replit.app/mcp`
- [Chest](https://github.com/paraskakis/chest): Curated quote collections for building arguments. Open a chest, point your agent at it, loot it to make your case.
- [API Lessons: ChatGPT plugin](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_69b0872f174481918af53845782b80f4): Official directory entry: the API Lessons plugin in ChatGPT.
- [API Lessons: Claude connector](https://claude.ai/directory/63708f5c-9ff5-4446-b70e-06a72316ce42): Official directory entry: the API Lessons connector in Claude.
- [API design skills](https://github.com/paraskakis/skills/tree/main/api): User stories, spec, design review, and end to end.
  `npx skills add paraskakis/skills/api`
  Claude Code, Cursor, Codex
- [Agent-ready CLI design skills](https://github.com/paraskakis/skills) (Beta): Story, spec, build, audit, and end to end.
  `npx skills add paraskakis/skills/cli`
  Claude Code, Cursor, Codex

## Pages

- [Level 250](https://www.level250.com/): Level 250 helps teams build AI-ready APIs through product training, strategy, and consulting.
- [About Emmanuel Paraskakis](https://www.level250.com/about): Canonical background on Emmanuel Paraskakis, founder of Level 250 and 3x VP Product at Apiary, Swagger, and Oracle.
- [Contact Level 250](https://www.level250.com/contact): Contact Level 250 about API product strategy, training, consulting, and agent-ready API work.
- [Privacy — Level 250](https://www.level250.com/privacy): Plain-language privacy policy for Level 250 email signup and resource download forms.
- [For Agents](https://www.level250.com/for-agents): Canonical machine-friendly facts, course links, citation guidance, and agent-readable surfaces for Level 250.
- [Training Ladder](https://www.level250.com/training): One Level 250 training path: start with API product fundamentals, master the craft, then build agent-ready API products with MCP.
- [API Product Courses](https://www.level250.com/training/courses): Three Level 250 Maven courses for API product managers: fundamentals, mastery, and agent-ready API products with MCP.
- [API Fundamentals for Product Managers](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/api-fundamentals): A hands-on foundation in API product management for PMs, new API PMs, and leaders managing API product work.
- [API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/api-product-mastery): A deeper API product course for PMs and product leaders who already have API experience and want to scale the craft.
- [Build What Agents Want: MCP, APIs, Skills & Plugins](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/build-what-agents-want): Become an Agent Experience (AX) Product Manager, earn your certificate, and build products for agents.
- [API and AI Product Workshops](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops): Five Level 250 hands-on workshops on agents, MCP products, MCP apps, API-first products, and agent skills.
- [Build & Ship Agent Skills for Your Product](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops/build-agent-skills): Skills as a Product for Agents: Ship to a New AI Distribution Channel in 4 hours
- [Build an MCP Product with AI](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops/build-mcp-product): Your product needs an MCP server for agents to use it. Build it in 4 hours.
- [Build an API-First Product with AI](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops/build-api-first-product): Go from an idea to a deployed, standards-compliant API in one session.
- [What Agents Want from Your Product](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops/what-agents-want): Your product was designed for humans. Your next million users won't be human.
- [Free Lightning Lessons](https://www.level250.com/training/lightning-lessons): Free Level 250 Lightning Lessons: live sessions, most Wednesdays, with upcoming Maven lessons and the archive.
- [Services](https://www.level250.com/services): Level 250 services for API strategy, developer experience, consulting, training, workshops, and startup advice.
- [Developer Experience](https://www.level250.com/services/dx): Improve API developer experience across discovery, onboarding, usability, and retention with a practical review and prioritized fixes from Level 250.
- [Consulting](https://www.level250.com/services/consulting): Get API product consulting for market validation, developer-facing go-to-market, modernization, governance, and product-team coaching from Level 250.
- [Startup Advice](https://www.level250.com/services/advisor): Get startup advisory for customer validation, product-market fit, monetization, and API strategy from a founder with three successful exits.
- [Product Strategy](https://www.level250.com/services/strategy): Shape API product strategy, pricing, monetization, platform choices, and developer-led growth with experienced Level 250 product leadership.
- [AI-Ready API Checklist](https://www.level250.com/resources/ai-ready-api-checklist): A practical checklist for evaluating whether an API product is ready for AI agents.