Free Claude Code Course
Improve your coding workflow with advanced agentic techniques.
Why Take This Course?
Configure Claude Code for your Codebase
Build Smarter AI-Assisted Workflows
Configure Claude Code with like CLAUDE.md files, skills, and hooks to automate repetitive tasks and give the AI the context it needs to generate better, more relevant code with fewer missteps.
Stay in Control with Permissions & Model Configuration
Understand how to manage what Claude Code can and can't do. Use Plan Mode, Deny Mode, and tune effort levels and model selection to balance output quality against cost.
Orchestrate Multi-Agent Systems
Discover how to leverage sub-agents and agent teams to parallelize complex workflows, keep context clean, and enable collaboration between specialized agents tackling different parts of a problem.
Extend and Integrate Claude Code
Explore how plugins, MCP, and the Agent SDK let you bundle reusable components and connect Claude to external tools and services.
What You'll Learn
Learning How Claude Code Works Under The Hood
16
Lessons
1.9
Hours
4.5
Rating
Build a mental model that makes everything else click. From the model to the harness, get hands on customizing Claude Code to your codebase.
- Automate repetitive workflows by creating custom skills and hooks that handle multi-step tasks with minimal manual input.
- Automate repetitive workflows by creating custom skills and hooks that handle multi-step tasks with minimal manual input.
- Write better code faster by giving Claude deep context about your codebase through structured configuration files.
- Stay in control with flexible permission modes that let you decide exactly how much autonomy the AI has at any given moment.
- Tackle complex problems by orchestrating multiple AI agents working in parallel on different parts of a task simultaneously.
- Connect Claude to your entire stack using MCP and plugins to integrate with external tools, services, and systems beyond just your code repository.
Lydia Hallie Anthropic
Your (Awesome) Instructor
Lydia Hallie is on the Claude Code team at Anthropic, where she focuses on developer experience and technical education. Previously, she was Head of Developer Experience at Bun and DX engineer at Vercel.
A Decade of Experience in Software Engineering & Developer Experience
With a background in both software engineering and technical content architecture, Lydia's work bridges technical depth with a visual clarity that translates real-world engineering challenges into spec-compliant, actionable content for developers at all levels.
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic
Focused on developer experience and technical education for Claude Code
Head of Developer Experience at Bun
DX and evangelized the Bun runtime, including co-authoring the announcement of native Bun support on Vercel.
Staff Developer Relations Engineer
Created technical content for experienced developers and ensured open source frameworks integrated seamlessly with the platform
Prerequisite: Knowledge of
Prompt Engineering and basic
software development experience.
Introduction
16 minutes
Permissions, Skills, & Hooks
1 hour, 11 minutes
Plugins & Claude Desktop
28 minutes
Wrapping Up
1 hour, 56 minutes
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Your Learning Adventure Begins Here
- Course Progress: Learn at your own pace and pick up right where you left off.
- Robust Note-Taking: Take notes alongside transcripts to easily reference information while learning.
- Quizzes & Flashcards: Reinforce your learning with quizzes and flashcards after every lesson.
Earn a Completion Certificate
After completing this course, you'll receive a certificate of completion that serves as proof of your achievement, showcasing your expertise, and commitment to professional development. You can easily share this certificate on your LinkedIn profile to highlight your new skills and demonstrate continuous learning to potential employers and professional connections.
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Loved by 500k+ developers
Awesome course! You can really learn a lot in a short amount of time, and Lydia really knows how to work well with Claude. Her teaching style is great!
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