💎 Key Takeaways
| Course Name | Claude Code in Action |
|---|---|
| Platform | Claude Academy |
| Price | Not disclosed |
| Duration | 1 hour, 9 lessons, self-paced |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Prerequisites | Experience using Claude Code for single prompts; basic Git and command-line familiarity |
| Skills | Long-session steering, CLAUDE.md configuration, hooks, permission modes, headless automation, GitHub Actions integration, unsupervised run verification |
About
This course moves you past one-off Claude Code prompts into longer, lower-supervision workflows. You learn to scope and steer multi-hour sessions, write CLAUDE.md files Claude reliably follows, enforce non-negotiable rules with hooks, schedule automated runs, connect Claude to pull requests via GitHub Actions, and verify results from sessions you did not watch. The outcome is a repeatable setup you can hand to a team.
The course is offered through Claude Academy, Anthropic’s official learning platform, and covers Claude Code’s own native features, including plan mode, rewind, goal and loop modes, permission settings, and the managed code review GitHub Action.
Who’s Teaching
N/A
What’s Covered
- Scoping long sessions with plan mode and directing context compaction
- Using the rewind menu to course-correct mid-session
- Running autonomous sessions with goal and loop modes and parallel work with worktrees
- Writing a CLAUDE.md that Claude consistently follows
- Packaging reusable procedures as verification skills
- Selecting and configuring permission modes per job type
- Enforcing rules and gating turns on test results with hooks
- Scheduling prompts as routines on Anthropic infrastructure and running headless mode
- Integrating Claude into pull requests with managed code review and the GitHub Action
- Verifying unsupervised runs and packaging trusted setups as team-wide plugins
Skills You’ll Develop
- Structuring and steering long Claude Code sessions without constant supervision
- Writing effective CLAUDE.md configuration files
- Automating repeated workflows via routines, headless mode, and GitHub Actions
- Enforcing guardrails using hooks and permission modes
- Verifying the output of autonomous runs proportionally to oversight given
- Packaging and distributing Claude Code setups as shareable team plugins
Level
Intermediate. Best suited for developers already using Claude Code for single-prompt tasks who want to scale to longer, team-wide, and automated workflows. It is not designed for Claude Code beginners.
