Practical guides for Claude Code

Honest, example-driven guides for getting real work done with Anthropic's Claude Code — skills, subagents, workflows, and the setup that makes it pull its weight.

Doing Code Review With Claude Code

How to review a diff well with Claude Code: give it the intent, hunt for correctness, edge, and security issues, and use an independent reviewer subagent.

6 min

Debugging Methodically With Claude Code

Stop the guess-and-check loop. A reproduce-first, one-hypothesis debugging method that makes Claude Code find root causes with evidence, not luck.

7 min

Setting Up Claude Code for a Team

How a team gets consistent Claude Code behavior: a committed CLAUDE.md, shared skills and subagents in version control, review conventions, and onboarding.

6 min

Automating Your Workflow With Claude Code Hooks

Claude Code hooks run your own shell commands at lifecycle events, so behaviors like formatting or command-blocking are enforced by the harness, not the model.

6 min

Working in Large Codebases With Claude Code

Practical strategies for using Claude Code in large codebases: keep context narrow, delegate exploration to subagents, map the repo, and verify changes.

6 min

Using MCP Servers With Claude Code

What the Model Context Protocol is, why you'd connect an MCP server to Claude Code, common examples, and the trust and permission trade-offs.

6 min

A Pre-Merge Review Pipeline With Claude Code

Build a disciplined pre-merge flow in Claude Code: plan, implement, verify by exercising the change, then an independent adversarial review before you commit.

8 min

How to Prompt Claude Code Effectively

A practical guide to prompting Claude Code — state intent and acceptance criteria, point at the right files, plan before editing, and demand verification.

6 min

Safe Refactoring With Claude Code

Refactor with Claude Code without breaking behavior: pin it with characterization tests, take small verified steps, and never mix refactor with change.

6 min

Custom Slash Commands in Claude Code

Custom slash commands in Claude Code are saved prompts you invoke by name. Learn what they are, when they beat skills, and how to pass arguments.

5 min

Claude Code Subagents: A Practical Guide

What a Claude Code subagent is, when it beats an inline skill, the token cost trade-off, how to define one, and three real use cases.

8 min

Getting Claude Code to Write Tests That Catch Bugs

Naive prompts make Claude Code write tautological, over-mocked tests. Here's how to steer it toward behavior-focused tests with sharp asserts.

6 min

12 Claude Code Tips for Shipping Faster

Twelve concrete Claude Code practices — a good CLAUDE.md, narrow context, subagents, verifying before done, skills, and extended thinking — that ship faster.

6 min

Claude Code vs Cursor: An Honest Comparison

Claude Code is a terminal coding agent; Cursor is an AI-native IDE. Where each one wins, where they overlap, and how to pick the right fit.

7 min

Multi-Agent Workflows in Claude Code

How deterministic multi-agent orchestration works in Claude Code: fan-out, pipeline vs barrier, verify stages, and when a scripted workflow beats one agent.

6 min

CLAUDE.md Best Practices (With Examples)

A practical guide to writing a CLAUDE.md that makes Claude Code follow your build commands, conventions, and gotchas — plus a copyable example file.

6 min

Getting Started With Claude Code: A First-Day Guide

Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-based AI coding agent. A first-day guide to launching it, the describe-act-review loop, and mistakes to avoid.

6 min

What Are Claude Code Skills (and How to Write One)

A Claude Code skill is a Markdown file the agent auto-loads when relevant. Learn what skills are, how triggering works, and how to write a SKILL.md.

6 min

Free tools & resources

Set up Claude Code the right way

Start free with the open-source starter — a ship skill, an adversarial-reviewer subagent, a bug-hunt workflow, and a CLAUDE.md template. Want the full kit? The Pro Pack adds 6 skills, 3 subagents, 3 workflows, 4 templates and a handbook.

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