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Claude Code in Action

Run long, hands-off Claude Code sessions you can trust: steer, configure, automate, and verify

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About this course

Claude Code in Action teaches you to run Claude past the quick task and trust the result. You will scope and steer long sessions, write instructions Claude actually follows, enforce the rules that cannot be skipped, hand off work to hands-off and scheduled runs, and verify what came back when no one was watching. By the end you can point Claude at hours of work, walk away, and check what it did with confidence.

What you'll learn

  • Steer the Work: scope work with plan mode, direct compaction so summaries keep what matters, use the rewind menu to course-correct, and choose between hands-on steering and autonomous goal and loop runs
  • Configure Claude: write a lean CLAUDE.md Claude actually follows, package repeated procedures as skills, pick the right permission mode for each job, and enforce the non-negotiable rules with hooks
  • Automate Repeat Work: schedule prompts as routines on Anthropic infrastructure, drop to headless mode when a job needs your own pipeline, and wire Claude into pull requests with managed code review and the GitHub action
  • Verify and Share: verify unsupervised runs in proportion to how little you watched them, gate turns on real test results with hooks, and package a setup you trust as a plugin your whole team can install

Who this course is for

Developers who already use Claude Code for single prompts and want to move to longer, less supervised, team-wide workflows.

Curriculum

  • Steer the Work
  • Steering Long Sessions
  • Configure Claude
  • A CLAUDE.md That Follows
  • Verification Skills
  • Permission Modes
  • Hooks
  • Automate Repeat Work
  • Routines and Headless
  • GitHub Actions and Code Review
  • Verify and Share
  • Trust It: Verifying Unsupervised Runs
  • Plugins
  • Quiz
  • Course Quiz

About this course

Claude Code in Action teaches you to run Claude past the quick task and trust the result. You will scope and steer long sessions, write instructions Claude actually follows, enforce the rules that cannot be skipped, hand off work to hands-off and scheduled runs, and verify what came back when no one was watching. By the end you can point Claude at hours of work, walk away, and check what it did with confidence.

What you'll learn

  • Steer the Work: scope work with plan mode, direct compaction so summaries keep what matters, use the rewind menu to course-correct, and choose between hands-on steering and autonomous goal and loop runs
  • Configure Claude: write a lean CLAUDE.md Claude actually follows, package repeated procedures as skills, pick the right permission mode for each job, and enforce the non-negotiable rules with hooks
  • Automate Repeat Work: schedule prompts as routines on Anthropic infrastructure, drop to headless mode when a job needs your own pipeline, and wire Claude into pull requests with managed code review and the GitHub action
  • Verify and Share: verify unsupervised runs in proportion to how little you watched them, gate turns on real test results with hooks, and package a setup you trust as a plugin your whole team can install

Who this course is for

Developers who already use Claude Code for single prompts and want to move to longer, less supervised, team-wide workflows.

Curriculum

  • Steer the Work
  • Steering Long Sessions
  • Configure Claude
  • A CLAUDE.md That Follows
  • Verification Skills
  • Permission Modes
  • Hooks
  • Automate Repeat Work
  • Routines and Headless
  • GitHub Actions and Code Review
  • Verify and Share
  • Trust It: Verifying Unsupervised Runs
  • Plugins
  • Quiz
  • Course Quiz