Welcome to Claude Code Power User Guide
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Most developers use Claude Code the same way they used to Google Stack Overflow — fire off a question, copy the answer, move on. This course is about something completely different: treating Claude Code as a collaborative engineering partner that operates your codebase autonomously while you focus on decisions that matter.
What you'll walk away with
By the end of this course you will be able to:
- Set up Claude Code correctly — terminal, IDE, Docker sandboxes, permissions
- Engineer prompts and context that produce high-quality, first-attempt results
- Write powerful
CLAUDE.mdfiles that turn every new session into a briefed teammate - Use Plan Mode to design complex changes before any code is touched
- Build and orchestrate subagents that work in parallel on your project
- Create custom agent skills — reusable, callable from any session
- Connect MCP servers for file systems, databases, APIs, and more
- Write hooks that run automatic quality checks at every key event
- Install plugins that extend Claude Code's built-in toolset
- Run Claude Code in a Ralph (autonomous) loop — self-correcting until success
- Use Claude Code Web — the browser-based cloud interface
Who this course is for
- Developers already using Claude Code who feel they're only scratching the surface
- Engineers who want to build real autonomous AI workflows (not just autocomplete)
- Anyone who heard the words "subagents", "MCPs", "hooks", or "loops" and had no idea what they meant
Course philosophy
Every lesson explains what a feature is, why it exists, and how to use it on a real project. No filler. No hand-waving. If something is advanced, we'll say so upfront and give you what you need to use it safely.
Let's get started.