Claude Code Basics

Learn to drive Claude Code — tools, context, permissions, plan mode, subagents — on a real folder, without writing a line of code yourself.

10 lessons 3 phases beginner

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why this workshop

who it's for.

Anyone comfortable running commands who has never used an agentic coding tool. No programming required. Designed as the on-ramp to the Claude Certified Architect series.

what you'll build

what you walk away with.

01 A working mental model of Claude Code: an agent that reads your folder, acts through tools, and asks before it does anything risky.
02 A `clean.py` Claude wrote for you, that you ran and checked before trusting.
03 A `report.py` built from a plan you reviewed and approved before any code was written.
04 A git safety net — one Claude change committed, one reverted, by you.
05 A `CLAUDE.md` whose rules visibly change how Claude behaves in this folder.
06 A task completed by subagents, and the judgment to know when delegating helps and when it doesn't.
07 Sessions you can leave and come back to, and the habit of clearing context on purpose.
08 Your first skill — the bridge to the Claude Certified Architect series.

curriculum

10 lessons across 3 phases.

phase A · The mental model 3 lessons

01 First contact
02 Tools and permissions
03 Context

phase B · Get work done safely 4 lessons

04 Claude writes code
05 Undo with git
06 Plan mode
07 CLAUDE.md and memory

phase C · Scaling up 3 lessons

08 Subagents
09 Sessions
10 Bridge to CCA

prerequisites

what you need before you start.

A terminal you're comfortable in: You can open one, run a command, and read what comes back. That's the whole bar.
Claude Code, installed and signed in: Any plan works. The workshop makes no API calls of its own — the only cost is your own Claude Code session.
No Python setup: Setup builds an isolated Python environment for you. You will run scripts Claude writes; you will not write any.

start

how to start.

Once Claude Code is set up, tell it “set up the claude code basics workshop” and it clones the project and queues the first lesson.

New here? The getting-started guide walks you through installing the lwc CLI and the Claude Code plugin once — everything you need before that line works.