Books by Johnny Suede

Five books, each written for a different reader.

Stake Your Claim

For the creator. If you make things and have never thought about who owns them once they leave your hands, start here.

Proof as Infrastructure

For the builder. Why proof of creation has to live in the settlement layer and how Suede implements it in contracts.

Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer

For the operator. The company as a system: identity, hardware, execution, provenance, protocol, automation, network.

The Claude Code Bible

For the person running AI coding agents. The complete operator's guide to Claude Code, from first session to fleet discipline.

Codex in Production

For the team shipping with OpenAI Codex. AGENTS.md, worktrees, skills, and what production use asks of an agent.

Johnny Suede Press

The independent works publish under Johnny Suede Press. The Screenshot carries the imprint in its web edition and EPUB colophon, and the guitar books carry it in their paid print editions.

The Operator's Library

The Claude Code Bible and Codex in Production are Books 1 and 2 of The Operator's Library on Amazon. Both were republished through Kindle Direct Publishing as Edition 2 on September 4, 2026.

Where to read the five

The published shelf: every title here has an Amazon edition.

• Stake Your Claim: Turning the AI Onslaught into a Real AssetKindle edition. Speeches, discussions, and hard truths on autonomous agents, real assets, and building generational wealth while the ground moves.
• Proof as Infrastructure: Designing Durable Systems Without Trust AssumptionsKindle edition. A systems book on building for verification instead of trust: provenance, settlement, and records that outlive the platforms that made them.
• Suede Labs: The Human Authenticity Layer: How Ownership, Origin, and AI Redraw the Creative MapKindle edition. Why origin and ownership become the scarce assets of the AI era, and how creators keep their names attached to their work.
• The Claude Code Bible: The Complete Operator's Guide to Claude Code and AI Coding AgentsKindle edition. The Operator's Library, Book 1.
• Codex in Production: A Practical Operator's Guide to OpenAI Codex, AGENTS.md, Worktrees, Skills, Security, and Long-Running Agent WorkKindle edition. The Operator's Library, Book 2.

Independent works

Published outside Amazon, so they sit outside the five-book count.

• The Screenshot: Why AI Recommends Your Competitors, and How to Fix ItJohnny Suede Press. Free to read in full on the web: eleven chapters and a glossary on how answer engines decide who to name and how to repair the pages they misread.
• The Signal Chain: A Life in Six Strings. Guitar Tone, Memoir and MethodJohnny Suede Press. A memoir and method built around the electric guitar signal chain: 111 song lessons, with guides on impedance, gain staging and pedalboard order.
• The Guitar Without a Number: Memoir-Driven Instruction for the Self-Taught GuitaristJohnny Suede Press. The earlier self-taught instruction thread, which now lives inside The Signal Chain.