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Claude Code Crash Course — Development agent for Claude Code

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Hands-on crash course for Claude Code with branch-based projects on MCP, subagents, hooks, and automation.

How to install Claude Code Crash Course

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open emarco177/claude-code-crash-course and copy the folder into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Code Crash Course does

Hands-on crash course for Claude Code with branch-based projects on MCP, subagents, hooks, and automation.

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README

Claude Code Crash Course 🚀

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Welcome to the Claude Code Crash Course! This repository is designed to teach you the fundamentals and advanced concepts of Claude Code, Anthropic's official CLI for AI-powered software development, in a hands-on way.

What is Claude Code? 💡

Claude Code is an interactive command-line interface that brings Claude's AI capabilities directly to your development workflow. It helps with code analysis, bug fixing, feature development, refactoring, and workflow automation - all from your terminal.

How it Works 🤔

This repository uses a unique branch-based structure for learning:

Each project/* branch covers a specific Claude Code feature or concept.
Within each branch, commits are ordered chronologically. Follow the commits one by one to learn the topic step-by-step.

Simply check out the branch for the topic you want to learn and walk through the commits!

Available Topics (Branches) 📚

Here are the topics currently available:

Branch	Topic	Description
`project/custom-commands`	🔧 Custom Commands	Learn to extend Claude Code with custom functionality like dad joke generators and automated commits
`project/mcp`	🔗 MCP Integration	Master Model Context Protocol integration with Context7 MCP server
`project/context-engineering-mcp`	⚡ Fine-Grained MCP Configuration	Optimize context tokens with task-specific MCP configurations using `--mcp-config` flag
`project/subagents`	🤖 Subagents	Build specialized AI agents within Claude Code like Code Comedy Carl
`project/hooks-notifications`	🎣 Hooks & Notifications	Automate your workflow with sound notifications and event triggers
`project/hookhub`	🏢 Hook Hub	Advanced hook management and organization systems

*More topics might be added, so keep an eye out!*

Prerequisites 🛠️

Before you start, make sure you have the following installed:

🤖 Claude Code CLI
📦 Git
🐍 Python (version 3.8 or higher)
📝 Your favorite text editor/IDE

Getting Started ▶️

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/emarco177/claude-code-crash-course.git
cd claude-code-crash-course

Choose a topic and check out the branch:

# Example for the custom commands topic
git checkout project/custom-commands

Follow the commits: Use git log --oneline --reverse to see the chronological list of commits for the branch. Then, use git checkout or your Git client to step t