Claude Code Masterclass · Curriculum

Claude Code Masterclass

From opening the black window and closing it again, to running a production system on your own.

9 Levels · 48 Lessons · 8 Weeks

Every lesson is one idea, one task, one artifact.

Start Here

2 lessons

Two lessons, one sitting. Fix the destination in your own words, then learn how the course is put together — because used like a video series it produces exactly what video series have produced before.

  1. 0.1

    What You'll Be Able To Do

    • The 7am failure, handled
    • Reading code, not writing it
    • A dated note, sealed to week 8
  2. 0.2

    How This Course Works

    • Six sections, every lesson
    • The artifact, not the feeling
    • stuck.md: trying, tried, said

Setup & Vocabulary

8 lessons · Week 1

Hands on the tool, and learning the nouns. Installed and working on real files by Friday — then the eight words everything after this depends on, defined while they're still attached to something you watched happen.

  1. 1.1

    What Claude Code Actually Is
  2. 1.2

    Which Surface, And Which Plan
  3. 1.3

    Install And First Run
  4. 1.4

    What A Project Is
  5. 1.5

    Where Things Live
  6. 1.6

    Sessions And The Commands That Matter
  7. 1.7

    Permission Modes
  8. 1.8

    The Vocabulary

AI Fundamentals

5 lessons · Week 2

Why the thing you used all week behaves the way it does. Theory lands second on purpose, so every lesson here explains something you have already watched happen. Two failure modes, then the lever, then the fix.

  1. 2.1

    What An LLM Actually Is
  2. 2.2

    Context — Why It Forgets
  3. 2.3

    Prompting That Lands First Time
  4. 2.4

    Memory And RAG In Plain Language
  5. 2.5

    The Ladder

Structure

5 lessons · Week 3

How Claude knows your world. A map at the top, a room per workspace, tools underneath — then you build your own and audit it against the seven ways people get it wrong.

  1. 3.1

    The Three Layers
  2. 3.2

    CLAUDE.md — The Map
  3. 3.3

    The Routing Table
  4. 3.4

    CONTEXT.md — The Rooms
  5. 3.5

    Build Yours, And The Seven Mistakes

Version Control

3 lessons · Week 3

You cannot be trusted with real things until you can undo. Git in plain language, a checkpoint you can return to, and a copy that survives the laptop. This lands before anything gets built.

  1. 4.1

    What Git Actually Is
  2. 4.2

    Commits And History
  3. 4.3

    Branches And GitHub Backup

Build One Real Thing

4 lessons · Week 4

Scaffolding for Level 6, not a craft exercise. Brief, build, check, deploy — no design systems, no polish. You cannot read a system you didn't build if you have never built one.

  1. 5.1

    Brief Before Build
  2. 5.2

    Build It
  3. 5.3

    Checking Claude's Work
  4. 5.4

    Deploy It, Then Break It

The differentiator

Operate It

9 lessons · Weeks 5–6

Everything above is building. This is keeping alive something other people depend on — reading a system you didn't write, deciding what to fix and what to escalate, and knowing what you never touch. It is the job most people actually get hired for, and the one no other course covers.

  1. 6.1

    Reading A System You Didn't Build
  2. 6.2

    Errors Are Data
  3. 6.3

    Read-Only First
  4. 6.4

    The Smallest Safe Change
  5. 6.5

    Monitoring
  6. 6.6

    Triage — Fix It Or Escalate It
  7. 6.7

    Never-Touch Lists
  8. 6.8

    Keeping Secrets Secret
  9. 6.9

    The Daily Loop

Skills & Leverage

9 lessons · Week 7

Where competence becomes leverage. Vet and amend other people's skills, write your own, connect real services through MCP, and get work happening while you are not at the machine.

  1. 7.1

    What A Skill Actually Is
  2. 7.2

    Finding And Vetting Skills
  3. 7.3

    Install, Test, Amend
  4. 7.4

    Build Your First Skill
  5. 7.5

    What Makes A Skill Good
  6. 7.6

    Connectors And MCP
  7. 7.7

    Build A Custom MCP
  8. 7.8

    Subagents And The Critic Loop
  9. 7.9

    Hooks, Routines And Scheduled Agents

Memory That Lasts

3 lessons · Week 8

Sessions end. Knowledge shouldn't. Where a given fact belongs, a vault that outlives any one conversation, and a way to search your own material properly.

  1. 8.1

    Three Levels Of Recall
  2. 8.2

    Obsidian As The Durable Brain
  3. 8.3

    Making It Searchable