Advanced Techniques
Deep dives into hooks, custom commands, memory management, enterprise proxies, LLM gateways, GitHub Actions, and cost monitoring. For developers who want programmatic control over every aspect of Claude Code.
Claude Code
Claude Code is Anthropic’s CLI-first AI coding agent. Unlike IDE-embedded tools, it runs in your terminal, works with any editor, scripts into CI/CD pipelines, and gives you full control over every interaction through hooks, subagents, and headless mode. If you spend your day in the terminal, Claude Code meets you where you already work.
This guide takes you from productive beginner to power user across three focused sections.
Learning Path
Section titled “Learning Path”Productivity Patterns
Battle-tested workflows for terminal productivity, prompt engineering, batch operations, script automation, IDE coordination, debugging, code review, and deployment. Ship faster with less friction.
100 Tips and Tricks
A curated collection of 100 actionable tips organized by topic: setup, CLAUDE.md mastery, CLI commands, large codebases, workflow optimization, performance, advanced techniques, team collaboration, and troubleshooting.
Why CLI-First Matters
Section titled “Why CLI-First Matters”Claude Code is not a chatbot bolted onto an editor. It is an agentic system that reads your codebase, runs shell commands, edits files, and chains complex multi-step operations — all from a single terminal session. This architecture unlocks patterns that IDE-only tools cannot replicate:
- Scriptable automation: Pipe output, chain commands, run headless in CI
- Hook-driven guardrails: Block dangerous operations, auto-format code, inject context — deterministically, not probabilistically
- Subagent delegation: Spawn isolated agents for parallel tasks, each with their own context window
- Session persistence: Resume conversations across days, share context through CLAUDE.md files
- Zero lock-in: Works with VS Code, Cursor, Neovim, JetBrains, or no editor at all
Quick Reference
Section titled “Quick Reference”| Need | Go to |
|---|---|
| Set up hooks and automation | Hooks System Mastery |
| Write better prompts | Prompt Engineering |
| Control costs | Monitoring and Costs |
| Use Claude Code in CI/CD | GitHub Actions |
| Manage large codebases | Large Codebase Tips |
| Configure CLAUDE.md | CLAUDE.md Mastery |