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Claude Code

Made Crystal Clear

A practical, visual guide to agentic coding in your terminal with Claude Code

Claude Code is the agentic coding tool developers cannot stop talking about: an AI teammate that lives in your terminal, reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens pull requests, while you stay in control. This guide takes you from your first session to a tuned, safe, everyday workflow: CLAUDE.md files that give it memory, skills and slash commands, hooks, MCP servers, subagents, and headless automation, explained visually and hands-on.

Pages
150
Level
Beginner to advanced
Status
Available
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Inside the book

  1. 01What Claude Code Is, and Why Developers Won't Shut Up About It
  2. 02Core Concepts: The Agentic Loop and the Context Window
  3. 03Getting Started: Install to First Shipped Change
  4. 04The Core Workflow: Explore, Plan, Implement, Commit
  5. 05CLAUDE.md and Memory: Teaching It Your Codebase
  6. 06Permissions, Safety, and Staying in Control
  7. 07Everyday Recipes: Bugs, Tests, Refactors, and PRs
  8. 08Skills and Slash Commands: Package What Works
  9. 09Hooks and MCP: Guarantees and Superpowers
  10. 10Subagents and Parallel Work: Multiply Yourself
  11. 11Automation: Headless Mode, CI, and Schedules
  12. 12Cost, Models, and Limits: Make the Meter Work for You
  13. 13Claude Code at Work: Teams, Production, and the Business Case
  14. 14Learning Path and Cheat Sheet

You'll leave with

  • Install Claude Code and ship your first real change in minutes
  • Give it project memory with CLAUDE.md files that actually work
  • Drive it well: plan mode, permissions, and reviewing what it does

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Sources

Every source cited in Claude Code Made Crystal Clear. Each number matches the [n] marker next to that link in the book's "Go deeper" lists, so you can trace any claim back to its origin.

  1. [1]Claude Code overview
  2. [2]How Claude Code works
  3. [3]Best practices
  4. [4]Agentic coding notes (Simon Willison)
  5. [5]Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot (Dextra Labs)
  6. [6]Context window (official docs)
  7. [7]Manage costs (official docs)
  8. [8]Glossary (official docs)
  9. [9]Claude Code quickstart
  10. [10]CLI reference
  11. [11]Interactive mode
  12. [12]Troubleshooting
  13. [13]Anthropic Discord
  14. [14]Common workflows
  15. [15]How I use Claude Code (Boris Tane)
  16. [16]Memory (CLAUDE.md) docs
  17. [17]Using CLAUDE.md files (Anthropic blog)
  18. [18]Community CLAUDE.md example
  19. [19]50 Claude Code tips (Builder.io)
  20. [20]Permissions
  21. [21]Settings
  22. [22]Sandboxing
  23. [23]Security
  24. [24]Data usage
  25. [25]How Anthropic teams use Claude Code
  26. [26]AI code migration at Anthropic
  27. [27]Extend Claude with skills
  28. [28]Commands reference
  29. [29]Agent Skills standard
  30. [30]Plugins
  31. [31]anthropics/skills
  32. [32]Automate with hooks (guide)
  33. [33]Hooks reference
  34. [34]Connect Claude Code to tools via MCP
  35. [35]Model Context Protocol
  36. [36]My complete development setup (Damian Galarza)
  37. [37]Subagents
  38. [38]Worktrees
  39. [39]Dynamic workflows in Claude Code
  40. [40]Headless mode
  41. [41]GitHub Actions
  42. [42]Agent SDK overview
  43. [43]anthropics/claude-code-action
  44. [44]Model configuration
  45. [45]Model and effort level in Claude Code
  46. [46]What is the Pro plan?
  47. [47]What is the Max plan?
  48. [48]Extra usage for paid Claude plans
  49. [49]Claude pricing
  50. [50]Admin setup
  51. [51]MDM deployment templates
  52. [52]Power user tips
  53. [53]anthropics/claude-code
  54. [54]r/ClaudeCode
  55. [55]DeepLearning.AI course
  56. [56]Routines
  57. [57]Scheduled tasks (/loop)
  58. [58]Agent teams
  59. [59]Claude Code on the web
  60. [60]VS Code extension
  61. [61]JetBrains plugin
  62. [62]Desktop app
  63. [63]Claude Code in large codebases
  64. [64]Agentic engineering patterns (Simon Willison)
  65. [65]Claude Code best practices (DataCamp)
  66. [66]Production workflow guide (TrueFoundry)
  67. [67]anthropics/claude-plugins-official
  68. [68]anthropics/claude-agent-sdk-python
  69. [69]r/ClaudeAI
  70. [70]Documentation index (llms.txt)
  71. [71]Willison and Thariq fireside chat transcript

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