Mastering Claude Code

An agentic coding tool is not a smarter autocomplete and it is not a chat window. It reads your files, edits them, runs your tests, and decides what to do next, in a loop, until it believes the job is finished. That is a genuinely different thing to work with, and the people who get remarkable results from it are not writing cleverer prompts. They are managing three things the tool cannot manage for them: what it knows, what it is allowed to do, and how it will know when it is done.

Mastering Claude Code teaches exactly those three things. You will learn what the agent loop actually is and where it can go wrong, why context is a budget rather than a container and how to spend it, how to set permissions so that the agent is fast where it is safe and stops where it is not, and how to run a working session that ends in verified, committed work rather than a hopeful “done”.

This is the one course in the track that names a specific tool, because the skills are easier to learn against a real one. Everything you learn here transfers: the agent loop, the context budget, the permission boundary and the verification habit are the same in every agentic tool that will exist. Each module blends a short video overview, illustrated lessons, a knowledge-check quiz, and a hands-on interactive activity, including a context packer where you have to leave things out.

What you will be able to do:

• Explain the agent loop, and recognise the three ways it fails.
• Treat the context window as a budget: choose what to load, and what to leave out.
• Write a project memory file that earns its place in every conversation.
• Set permissions by blast radius, so the agent runs freely where mistakes are cheap.
• Plan, act and verify: give the agent a way to know it has finished.
• Diagnose a session that has gone wrong, and choose the right intervention.

Who it is for: Builders who already prompt an AI for code and want to work with an agent rather than a chatbot. Best taken after Spec-Driven Development, Testing, and Version Control.

Course outline: Orientation · What Claude Code Actually Is · Context Is a Budget · Permissions, Safety and Trust · Plan, Act, Verify · Capstone: Your Working Setup.