Claude Code Foundations
About this Course
Master agentic AI-assisted development from first prompt to production deployment
Claude Code is not just a code suggestion tool—it’s a full agentic development environment that can read your codebase, write and edit files, run tests, commit to Git, and iterate until the task is complete.
This immersive 3-day hands-on course teaches developers how to use Claude Code the same way Anthropic engineers do: spec-driven, context-aware, and production-ready.
Participants leave with a working system built on their own project, including custom skills, automation hooks, multi-agent workflows, and CI/CD integration.
Audience Profile
Software developers and engineers
DevOps and platform engineers
Technical leads and engineering managers
Teams building AI-assisted development workflows
Developers evaluating or adopting AI coding tools
At Course Completion
You will build:
A project configured with CLAUDE.md and AI development conventions
Custom reusable AI skills and workflows
Security, audit, and automation hooks
Custom slash commands and plugins
A custom MCP server connected to external tools
Multi-agent and parallel sub-agent workflows
A GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline using Claude in headless mode
Production-ready security, permission, and cost controls
Outline
Core workflows, context management, and Git integration
- Installing and configuring Claude Code
- Understanding the agentic development loop
- Creating and managing CLAUDE.md project memory
- Context and session hygiene best practices
- Spec-driven development workflows
- Secure Git and GitHub workflows using natural language
- Hands-On Labs: Build and ship a working application using Claude Code
Skills, Hooks, and Distribution
Reusable workflows, guardrails, and packaging
- Designing and building reusable AI skills
- Applying Anthropic’s skill design frameworks
- Creating deterministic hooks for security and automation
- Building custom slash commands
- Testing, benchmarking, and optimizing AI workflows
- Packaging skills, hooks, and commands into distributable plugins
- Hands-On Labs: Build skills, enforce guardrails, and package a reusable plugin
MCP, Subagents, and Production Deployment
Orchestration, integrations, and enterprise readiness
- Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Building and connecting custom MCP servers
- Orchestrating subagents and multi-agent teams
- Running Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines
- Configuring enterprise security and permissions
- Scaling, optimizing costs, and monitoring production usage
- Hands-On Labs: Deploy Claude Code in CI/CD and scale multi-agent workflows
Key Learning Outcomes
- Use Claude Code as a full agentic development system
- Create effective project memory and AI conventions
- Build reusable AI skills and workflows
- Enforce security, auditing, and automation with hooks
- Orchestrate parallel AI agents for complex tasks
- Integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines
- Configure production-grade security and cost controls
Prerequisites
Comfort working in a terminal
Basic Git knowledge
Active Claude Pro or Max subscription
No prior Claude Code experience required
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